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Different Quotes by Rajneesh

50 Different quotes by Rajneesh

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Rajneesh’s musings on the different are unapologetically bold, reflecting his reputation as a mystic who challenged conventional morality. Across 50 lines he mixes paradox, humor, and spiritual insight, inviting readers to reconsider what it means to be truly authentic in a world that prizes conformity.

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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the…

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The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in…

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Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can…

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Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state…

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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole…

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Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is…

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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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Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

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Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the…

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The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of…

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My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you…

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We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to…

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Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness,…

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Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that…

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Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling…

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In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person.…

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Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the…

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Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only…

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Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love…

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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.…

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When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that…

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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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To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with…

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Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you…

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Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

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It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and…

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A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis…

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Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is…

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Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens;…

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What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent.…

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In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and…

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The world is slowly, slowly moving towards love relationships; hence there is great turmoil. All the old institutions are disappearing - they…

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If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of…

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The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means…

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If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty,…

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A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his…

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I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my…

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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love,…

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Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has…

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The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you…

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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…

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Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…

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Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage…

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A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…

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The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…

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Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

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There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

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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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To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…

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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…

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"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

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