--- title: "17 Courses Quotes By Rajneesh" description: "17 Courses quotes by Rajneesh. Plus more from Rajneesh and more Courses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/rajneesh-54_change_if-you-take-the-responsibility-for-your_3145278.jpg" --- > [If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/if-you-take-the-responsibility-for-your-life-you-can-start-changing/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/rajneesh-54_change_if-you-take-the-responsibility-for-your_3145278.jpg) > [Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/meditation-is-a-death-death-of-all-that-you-are-now-of-course-there/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76c/rajneesh-54_courses_meditation-is-a-death-death-of-all-that_2100091.jpg) > [Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-do-two-things-meditate-watch-your-thought-processes-become-just/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab5/rajneesh-54_becoming_just-do-two-things-meditate-watch-your-t_2434280.jpg) > [Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-is-born-in-sexuality-but-sexuality-is-not-love-the-lotus-is-born/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/rajneesh-54_born_love-is-born-in-sexuality-but-sexuality_776391.jpg) > [I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-have-heard-about-a-patient-the-psychiatrist-was-bored-with-him-of/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/rajneesh-54_again-and-again_i-have-heard-about-a-patient-the-psychia_1126116.jpg) > [Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/real-music-will-help-you-move-towards-meditation-beyond-the-mind/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/213/rajneesh-54_arise_real-music-will-help-you-move-towards-me_3167141.jpg) > [This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-is-the-fear-death-will-come-and-we-have-not-lived-yet-we-are/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaf/rajneesh-54_afraid_this-is-the-fear-death-will-come-and-we_2346441.jpg) > [Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-is-a-way-to-avoid-intimacy-it-is-a-trick-to-create-a-formal/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb6/rajneesh-54_arise_marriage-is-a-way-to-avoid-intimacy-it-i_1956374.jpg) > [The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-richer-you-are-the-more-worries-you-have-problems-of-security/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bf/rajneesh-54_bother_the-richer-you-are-the-more-worries-you_87828.jpg) > [We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/we-are-afraid-of-love-because-love-is-a-small-death-love-requires/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/038/rajneesh-54_afraid-of-love_we-are-afraid-of-love-because-love-is-a_1173673.jpg) > [Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/devotion-means-for-the-total-it-is-never-for-rama-never-for-krishna/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/rajneesh-54_bounds_devotion-means-for-the-total-it-is-never_2494593.jpg) > [Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-has-become-a-battlefield-where-two-persons-are-fighting-for/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fde/rajneesh-54_battlefields_marriage-has-become-a-battlefield-where_3144313.jpg) > [Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/awareness-means-to-listen-to-me-unfocused-alert-of-course-not-fallen/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/rajneesh-54_awareness_awareness-means-to-listen-to-me-unfocuse_2346859.jpg) > [Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/greed-arises-only-because-your-present-moment-is-empty-and-to-live-in/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/rajneesh-54_arise_greed-arises-only-because-your-present-m_3027686.jpg) > [Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/future-arises-out-of-your-misery-not-out-of-your-celebration-a-really/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/265/rajneesh-54_arise_future-arises-out-of-your-misery-not-out_1281821.jpg) > [A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-woman-should-keep-her-separateness-should-save-all-her-feminine/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/rajneesh-54_be-proud_a-woman-should-keep-her-separateness-sho_1511502.jpg) > [Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/humanity-needs-a-new-soil-the-soil-of-freedom-bohemianism-was-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/rajneesh-54_bohemianism_humanity-needs-a-new-soil-the-soil-of-fr_2255864.jpg) ## Other authors on Courses ## More by Rajneesh > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/because-of-the-womb-being-a-central-phenomenon-in-the-feminine-body/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-all-depends-on-you-you-can-go-on-sleeping-forever-you-can-wake-up/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-greatest-mystery-in-life-is-not-life-itself-but-death-death-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-mind-is-a-prison-it-cannot-find-any-freedom-anywhere-it-must-die/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/never-belong-to-a-crowd-never-belong-to-a-nation-never-belong-to-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/money-should-not-be-in-the-hands-of-individuals-otherwise-it-will/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-is-going-to-disappear-should-disappear-and-now-the-point-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-mature-mind-is-one-who-understands-the-impossibility-of-knowing-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-word-religion-comes-from-an-origin-which-means-coming-together/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-and-laughter-go-together-and-laughter-is-one-of-the-greatest/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-are-people-who-want-to-become-rich-they-become-rich-if-you/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-take-one-thing-out-and-the-whole-palace-the-whole-edifice-of-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/to-me-man-means-awareness-of-death-i-am-not-saying-become-afraid-of/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/so-your-life-becomes-a-vital-celebration-your-relationship-becomes-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > ["Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/serenity-is-the-flavor-of-meditation/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courses/rajneesh/#itemlist", "name": "17 Courses Quotes By Rajneesh", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. 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