Rajneesh Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rajneesh
Rajneesh Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.
Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.
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.
[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.
Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.
You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point ...
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.
When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.
As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.
Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?
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.
Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.
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.
Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you - your being.
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.
When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.