Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.”

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252. “Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There’s no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.”

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253. “Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.”

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254. “Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.”

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255. “Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don’t say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!”

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256. “Egolessness is contentment.”

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257. “Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.”

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258. “I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help you to start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting your own being, no politician, no priest can exploit you. Man is always exploited through fear.”

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259. “At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.”

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260. “With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.”

— Rajneesh

261. “There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.”

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262. “Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.”

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

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264. “Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.”

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265. “Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy.”

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266. “It is your attachment that creates hell.”

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267. “And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about.”

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268. “My meditation is a method of being aware – of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.”

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269. “Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step – LOVE YOURSELF – will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.”

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270. “Jesus was a crackpot.”

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271. “Surrender means seeing that “I am not separate” – just SEEING that “I am not separate.” Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense idea, a dream is no more there because you are awake.”

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272. “Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don’t turn it into a suffering, don’t turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.”

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273. “Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.”

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274. “The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That’s what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.”

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275. “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”

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276. “Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.”

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277. “People are not things, you cannot have ownership.”

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278. “Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.”

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279. “Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.”

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280. “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”

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281. “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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282. “Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.”

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283. “Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.”

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284. “Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.”

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285. “Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.”

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286. “This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us.”

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287. “A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.”

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288. “Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it.”

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289. “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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290. “I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.”

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291. “Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.”

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292. “In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness – this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.”

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293. “If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.”

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294. “The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough – effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak.”

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295. “Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable...”

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296. “Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool – sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.”

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297. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”

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298. “There is no God other than life itself.”

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299. “Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.”

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300. “We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.”

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