Rajneesh Quotes

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Egolessness is contentment.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

A man who is 100% sane is dead.

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.