The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. . — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You don´t even expect gratitude… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not 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
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
Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever commandments are given they create difficulties for people, because by the time they are given they are already out of date.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking.… — 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
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created… — 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 Image
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
