Thinking Quotes by Rajneesh

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

— Rajneesh

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

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

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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

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My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

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God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

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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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But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen.…

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When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh…

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Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be…

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Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger,…

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You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very…

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This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises,…

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Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a…

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There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts…

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When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do…

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If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse…

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Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record…

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When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…

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I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you…

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If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to…

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Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful…

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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…

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Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be…

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The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it…

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The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in…

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One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely…

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Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You…

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I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most…

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All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we…

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Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes,…

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The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous…

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When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do…

— Rajneesh

Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears…

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Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you…

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Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being,…

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The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.…

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In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is…

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The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in…

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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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