Top 500 Rajneesh Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “You don’t seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.”

— Rajneesh

352. “Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.”

— Rajneesh

353. “If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him.”

— Rajneesh

354. “You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.”

— Rajneesh

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

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356. “Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don’t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer so that you can reach to the ultimate truth.”

— Rajneesh

357. “So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.”

— Rajneesh

358. “A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.”

— Rajneesh

359. “When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.”

— Rajneesh

360. “I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

— Rajneesh

361. “Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.”

— Rajneesh

362. “There is no sorrow except in captivity.”

— Rajneesh

363. “The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.”

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364. “Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.”

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

366. “Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.”

— Rajneesh

367. “Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.”

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368. “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.”

— Rajneesh

369. “Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing – that’s perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful – if you have time, join him.”

— Rajneesh

370. “To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people’s aloneness.”

— Rajneesh

371. “The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.”

— Rajneesh

372. “And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily.”

— Rajneesh

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

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374. “If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.”

— Rajneesh

375. “One has to love unconditionally – the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.”

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376. “If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.”

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377. “What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.”

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378. “Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?”

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379. “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.”

— Rajneesh

380. “Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”

— Rajneesh

381. “If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.”

— Rajneesh

382. “Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.”

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383. “Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser...”

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384. “The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the man of no ideals. Then how can the ego be created? – the very energy is missing. The energy comes out of friction, conflict, struggle, will.”

— Rajneesh

385. “A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.”

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386. “When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.”

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387. “The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.”

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388. “No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberate.”

— Rajneesh

389. “Modern art is childish – not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.”

— Rajneesh

390. “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.”

— Rajneesh

391. “The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.”

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392. “An expectation is a shelter – it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.”

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393. “A man who is 100% sane is dead.”

— Rajneesh

394. “We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?”

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395. “When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.”

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396. “If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.”

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397. “Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.”

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398. “Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, “I am not.” Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, “I am not separate.” Surrender is not an act but an understanding.”

— Rajneesh

399. “All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy – it is really a wound, very painful.”

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400. “Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.”

— Rajneesh