Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes
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201. “Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.”

— Rajneesh

202. “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

203. “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.”

— Rajneesh

204. “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.”

— Rajneesh

205. “Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.”

— Rajneesh

206. “Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

208. “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.”

— Rajneesh

209. “Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

211. “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.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

216. “Don’t analyze, celebrate it.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

218. “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.”

— Rajneesh

219. “I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are – live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.”

— Rajneesh

220. “Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it – that is the only way to know it.”

— Rajneesh

221. “Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally – chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.”

— Rajneesh

222. “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.”

— Rajneesh

223. “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.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

227. “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.”

— Rajneesh

228. “When Zen masters say ‘effortlessness’ they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort; now you can be relaxed and at ease, it will grow on its own accord. It will bring much foliage, and many flowers, and many blessings.”

— Rajneesh

229. “Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.”

— Rajneesh

230. “First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.”

— Rajneesh

231. “Grace is a feminine quality.”

— Rajneesh

232. “The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it.”

— Rajneesh

233. “A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.”

— Rajneesh

234. “The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power...”

— Rajneesh

235. “Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.”

— Rajneesh

236. “Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.”

— Rajneesh

237. “Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.”

— Rajneesh

238. “Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.”

— Rajneesh

239. “When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.”

— Rajneesh

240. “Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!”

— Rajneesh

241. “Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.”

— Rajneesh

242. “Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.”

— Rajneesh

243. “Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!”

— Rajneesh

244. “Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.”

— Rajneesh

245. “Attachment is the root cause of all misery – and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.”

— Rajneesh

246. “Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.”

— Rajneesh

247. “God is not in heaven – God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.”

— Rajneesh

248. “The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.”

— Rajneesh

249. “All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.”

— Rajneesh

250. “Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.”

— Rajneesh