Rajneesh Quotes

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

There is no God other than life itself.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own religion - there should be as many religions as there are people!

I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.