Rajneesh Quotes

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

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

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

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.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

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

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.