Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.”

— Rajneesh

52. “Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.”

— Rajneesh

53. “Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown.”

— Rajneesh

54. “That is the ultimate synthesis – when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.”

— Rajneesh

55. “Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.”

— Rajneesh

56. “Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? – for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.”

— Rajneesh

57. “Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

59. “There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all. It is unlimited silence but not dead, it is alive with songs of its own, with dances of its own.”

— Rajneesh

60. “Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.”

— Rajneesh

61. “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.”

— Rajneesh

62. “Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being...”

— Rajneesh

63. “What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.”

— Rajneesh

64. “Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.”

— Rajneesh

65. “Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

— Rajneesh

66. “Don’t be attached to the things of the world, and don’t be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world – attachment is the problem.”

— Rajneesh

67. “Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun – because that’s precisely what it is!”

— Rajneesh

68. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

— Rajneesh

69. “Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed – to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.”

— Rajneesh

70. “No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.”

— Rajneesh

71. “Life is a balance between rest and movement.”

— Rajneesh

72. “You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”

— Rajneesh

73. “Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.”

— Rajneesh

74. “Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but if you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.”

— Rajneesh

75. “Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

77. “Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness.”

— Rajneesh

78. “Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.”

— Rajneesh

79. “People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.”

— Rajneesh

80. “Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.”

— Rajneesh

81. “Real creativity comes only out of silence.”

— Rajneesh

82. “Truth is pure awareness.”

— Rajneesh

83. “Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.”

— Rajneesh

84. “Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.”

— Rajneesh

85. “Don’t swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.”

— Rajneesh

86. “People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell – that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don’t expect heaven and there will never be any hell.”

— Rajneesh

87. “Don’t get attached to anything.”

— Rajneesh

88. “Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!”

— Rajneesh

89. “There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.”

— Rajneesh

90. “It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.”

— Rajneesh

91. “Respect man, love man. Respect his individuality, respect his differences. And that is possible only if you respect your individuality. That is possible only if you are grounded in your own being and you are unafraid.”

— Rajneesh

92. “The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.”

— Rajneesh

93. “When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.”

— Rajneesh

94. “The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.”

— Rajneesh

95. “If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.”

— Rajneesh

96. “How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?”

— Rajneesh

97. “True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.”

— Rajneesh

98. “Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.”

— Rajneesh

99. “When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.”

— Rajneesh

100. “Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.”

— Rajneesh