Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Tomorrow never comes.”

— Rajneesh

2. “The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”

— Rajneesh

3. “If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”

— Rajneesh

4. “If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.”

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5. “Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.””

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6. “Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.”

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7. “NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.”

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8. “Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds.”

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9. “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I.”

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12. “Just get out of your own way.”

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13. “Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.”

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14. “Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.”

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15. “Knowledge is not information, it’s transformation.”

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16. “Learn to listen and trust your inner voice.”

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17. “The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.”

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18. “Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.”

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19. “Seriousness is a disease.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.”

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23. “Be – don’t try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”

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24. “My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.”

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25. “The inner emptiness is the door to God.”

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26. “Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.”

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27. “Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence.”

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28. “The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.”

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29. “Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.”

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30. “Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”

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

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32. “Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.”

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33. “If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.”

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34. “When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.”

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35. “Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.”

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36. “Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.”

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37. “If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere.”

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38. “A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.”

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39. “They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”

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40. “Anger is fear in disguise.”

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41. “Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.”

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42. “Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence – which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.”

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43. “Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.”

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44. “The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.”

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45. “The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.”

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46. “Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.”

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47. “The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.”

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48. “Beware: don’t choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.”

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

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50. “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.”

— Rajneesh