Rajneesh Quotes

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

Tomorrow never comes.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

You cannot lose your real treasure.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all vibrate in one single tune. They all vibrate in harmony!

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

In love the other is important; in lust you are important

I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

Through true love, you touch inner completeness.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.

If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.