Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ". — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word 'ecstasy' is beautiful; it simply means 'standing out.' Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension… — Rajneesh Copy Share
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in… — Rajneesh Copy Share
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share
