Death Quotes by Rajneesh

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

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Death is the greatest illusion of all.

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

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Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

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The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and…

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Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in…

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Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death,…

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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

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Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you…

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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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The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a…

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Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.

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Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort…

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From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all…

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Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to…

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The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death,…

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Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will…

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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And…

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Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And…

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Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then…

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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep…

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Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying…

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A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You…

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All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one…

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And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you…

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But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is…

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These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when…

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Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or…

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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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Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the…

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There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People…

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A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of…

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When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only…

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To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware…

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Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you…

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Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It…

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But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death.…

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And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there…

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This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have…

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So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not…

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