Rajneesh Quotes

Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

A religious person is a desireless person.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

Whatsoever you are doing...be double-arrowed.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.