Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

104. “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

105. “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.”

— Rajneesh

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.”

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

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

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113. “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.”

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

— Rajneesh

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

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

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

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119. “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.”

— Rajneesh

120. “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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121. “I am the rich man’s guru.”

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

— Rajneesh

124. “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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125. “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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126. “All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.”

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

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

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.”

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133. “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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134. “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.”

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135. “Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.”

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

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137. “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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138. “To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.”

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139. “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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140. “There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.”

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141. “Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.”

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142. “When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.”

— Rajneesh

143. “Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you – not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be.”

— Rajneesh

144. “When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.”

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

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146. “Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.”

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147. “Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.”

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148. “God is the very creative energy of existence – creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.”

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149. “Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.”

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150. “That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.”

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