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
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:… — 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
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not… — 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
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and… — 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
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing… — 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
Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something… — 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
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
So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he… — 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
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
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 have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — 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
Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God. — 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
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love… — 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
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — 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
