Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Rajneesh

52. “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

53. “Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain; everything is just open, in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!”

— Rajneesh

54. “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.”

— Rajneesh

55. “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.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

59. “Don’t get attached to anything.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

61. “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

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

— Rajneesh

63. “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

64. “Truth is pure awareness.”

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

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

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67. “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

68. “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

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

— Rajneesh

70. “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

71. “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

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

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73. “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

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

— Rajneesh

75. “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

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

— Rajneesh

77. “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

78. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Rajneesh

79. “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

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

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81. “Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

84. “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

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

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92. “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

93. “Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.”

— Rajneesh

94. “God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.”

— Rajneesh

95. “A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

97. “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

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

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99. “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

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

— Rajneesh