Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing – to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.”

— Rajneesh

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

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103. “Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.”

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104. “Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.”

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105. “Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.”

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106. “If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love...”

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107. “I am the rich man’s guru.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.”

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

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111. “Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.”

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

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

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114. “All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.”

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115. “A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.”

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116. “All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.”

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117. “Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.”

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

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119. “A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.”

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122. “Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.”

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123. “Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.”

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124. “Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”

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125. “Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know – and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”

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126. “The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.”

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127. “Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.”

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128. “Peace follows love energy like a shadow.”

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129. “To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming nearer and nearer and you have to be prepared for it...”

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130. “Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with the cosmos. And that harmony is God; that harmony is nirvana; that harmony is tao.”

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131. “You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.”

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132. “The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.”

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133. “The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.”

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134. “The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you exhale. When it inhales, you inhale. You live in it, are not separate, are one with it.”

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135. “God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.”

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136. “Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you – silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.”

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137. “I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.”

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138. “Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.”

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139. “Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.”

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140. “Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?”

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141. “It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.”

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142. “A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.”

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143. “I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”

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144. “Love can make a great celebration out of your life – but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.”

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145. “Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.”

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146. “If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.”

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147. “Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.”

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148. “Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.”

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149. “The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.”

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150. “People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.”

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