Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close the room, sit by yourself, and let the anger come up as much as it can. If you feel like beating, beat a pillow.”

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.”

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307. “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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308. “There is no God other than life itself.”

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

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310. “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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311. “Mind is a broken mirror.”

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

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314. “Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That’s why I am never in favor of marriage.”

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315. “Man is always exploited through fear.”

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

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317. “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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318. “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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319. “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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320. “Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.”

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

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

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “Belief is a deception you play upon yourself...”

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

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

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

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335. “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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336. “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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337. “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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338. “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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339. “Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.”

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

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341. “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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342. “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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343. “Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility, because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.”

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

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346. “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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347. “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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348. “Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.”

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

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350. “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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