Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Mind is a broken mirror.”

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302. “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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303. “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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304. “Man is always exploited through fear.”

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

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306. “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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307. “Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.”

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308. “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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309. “Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.”

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310. “Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion’s roar.”

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311. “Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.”

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312. “Bliss follows witnessing – and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: “I am only a watcher.” That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate.”

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313. “Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.”

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314. “If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.”

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315. “Let sannyas be the turning point. That’s what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.”

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316. “Belief is a deception you play upon yourself...”

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317. “Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.”

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318. “Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don’t let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That’s what awareness is all about.”

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319. “To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.”

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320. “Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don’t be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.”

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321. “The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.”

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322. “What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.”

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323. “With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun – you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.”

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324. “Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

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325. “To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.”

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326. “Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path.”

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327. “I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.”

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328. “Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.”

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329. “Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.”

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330. “Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?”

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331. “God is the collective ego of the world.”

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332. “Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.”

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333. “Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word ‘religion’ comes from a root which means binding together – falling into love, becoming one.”

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334. “Don’t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that’s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.”

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335. “Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility, because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.”

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336. “My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.”

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337. “Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.”

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338. “Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.”

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

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340. “Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.”

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341. “Spread compassion all around you. Look around you – people are so unhappy, don’t add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don’t add to their unhappiness.”

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342. “A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.”

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343. “In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior – there are no distinctions.”

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344. “Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.”

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345. “The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don’t choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? – don’t choose! That’s why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation.”

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346. “Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.”

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347. “Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.”

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348. “Love is an infinite sky!”

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349. “Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.”

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350. “Love makes you empty – empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.”

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