Rajneesh Quotes

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.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

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

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Don't analyze, celebrate it.

Mind is a broken mirror.

I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.

Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.