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World Quotes by Rajneesh

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Rajneesh reminds us that many people hide the inner world while ignoring the outer one. He says spreading meditation can bring harmony and that letting go of choices lets us sit in a still, endless space. He also notes that words can pull us away from true existence.

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Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

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God is the collective ego of the world

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Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

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Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

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The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

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To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but…

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A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad… Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

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To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

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The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end…

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The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody…

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The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

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Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the…

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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education,…

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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,…

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The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot,…

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I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a…

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Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by…

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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;…

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Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The…

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The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful,…

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If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out…

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To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,…

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To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be…

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Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so…

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The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life…

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Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going…

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When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are…

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When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being…

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The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any…

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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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The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak…

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I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

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The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world…

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You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no…

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When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only…

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I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage?…

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Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

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When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of…

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To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to…

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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…

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So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.