Rajneesh Quotes

Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.

Truth is pure awareness.

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.

‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

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.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.

Grace is a feminine quality.

I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Be - don't try to become.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>.

It is your attachment that creates hell.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

Just get out of your own way.

Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer