Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then… — 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
As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. — 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
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. — 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
The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — 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 sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever. — 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
