That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don't carry any ought on your heart! You are not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the… — 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
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
The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don't divide yourself. There is nothing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you… — 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
