Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.”

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

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

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156. “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.”

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

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

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159. “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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160. “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.”

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161. “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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162. “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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163. “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.”

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164. “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.”

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

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166. “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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167. “Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.”

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168. “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.”

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

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170. “The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.”

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171. “Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.”

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172. “If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely.”

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

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174. “Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.”

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175. “Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.”

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176. “My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.”

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

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

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179. “There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.”

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180. “The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.”

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

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182. “You are creating your own hell.”

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183. “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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184. “Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.”

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

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186. “Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.”

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

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188. “Mind’s requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind’s requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.”

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189. “Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.”

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190. “Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.”

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191. “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.”

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192. “Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.”

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193. “Whatever happened yesterday was the past.”

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194. “Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.”

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

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

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

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198. “Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.”

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199. “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.”

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200. “If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.”

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