Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

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203. “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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204. “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.”

— Rajneesh

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

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206. “Grace is a feminine quality.”

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207. “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.”

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

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

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211. “One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke.”

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

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

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214. “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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215. “You are creating your own hell.”

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

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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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220. “Whatever happened yesterday was the past.”

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

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “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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225. “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

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

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

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228. “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.”

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229. “Don’t choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.”

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230. “Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.”

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231. “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.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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

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235. “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.”

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236. “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...”

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237. “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.”

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238. “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.”

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239. “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.”

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

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

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242. “The heart is always right – if there’s a question of choosing between the mind and the heart – because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.”

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243. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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249. “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.”

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

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