The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or 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
'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as… — 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
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — 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
The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender… — 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
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — 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
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying… — 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
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
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
You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that… — 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 ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you accept your life - when you take your breakfast, and when you sleep and when you walk and when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless,… — 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
