Rajneesh Quotes

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW

The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

God is the collective ego of the world

My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

Mind is not your intelligence.

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.

Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough