Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.”

— Rajneesh

152. “Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.”

— Rajneesh

153. “And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you – friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.”

— Rajneesh

154. “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.”

— Rajneesh

155. “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.”

— Rajneesh

156. “God is creativity, not a Creator.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

158. “Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.”

— Rajneesh

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

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

— Rajneesh

162. “The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.”

— Rajneesh

163. “God is always joking. Look at your own life – it is a joke! Look at other people’s lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.”

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164. “Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.”

— Rajneesh

165. “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.”

— Rajneesh

166. “Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

168. “Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.”

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169. “Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.”

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

173. “The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.”

— Rajneesh

174. “You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.”

— Rajneesh

175. “The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.”

— Rajneesh

176. “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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177. “The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.”

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178. “A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I’m not saying stop doing, stop action; I’m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.”

— Rajneesh

179. “Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.”

— Rajneesh

180. “Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.”

— Rajneesh

181. “Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.”

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182. “Love is the goal, life is the journey.”

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183. “Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.”

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184. “If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.”

— Rajneesh

185. “The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.”

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186. “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”

— Rajneesh

187. “All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.”

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188. “When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.”

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189. “Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.”

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190. “The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.”

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191. “Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.”

— Rajneesh

192. “Don’t analyze, celebrate it.”

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193. “To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character – remain characterless.”

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194. “To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation – and participating in creativity is participating in God.”

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195. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

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196. “This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.”

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197. “Creativity means loving whatsoever you do – enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!”

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198. “Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.”

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199. “Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.”

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200. “Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.”

— Rajneesh