Rajneesh Quotes

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you.

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.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

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

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

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

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.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

I am the rich man's guru.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.