Rajneesh Quotes

Life is a balance between rest and movement.

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Life begins where fear ends.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.