Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.”

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254. “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.”

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

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256. “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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257. “Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it – total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don’t react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.”

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258. “You are not feeling empty because you don’t have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.”

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259. “All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.”

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260. “Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.”

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261. “Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.”

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262. “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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263. “Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.”

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264. “Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship – because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.”

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

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267. “Egolessness is contentment.”

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

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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279. “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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280. “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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281. “Jesus was a crackpot.”

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282. “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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283. “Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.”

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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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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289. “People are not things, you cannot have ownership.”

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290. “Through true love, you touch inner completeness.”

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291. “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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292. “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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293. “Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises – clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.”

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294. “Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.”

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295. “Creativity is always from the beyond.”

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

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “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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