Ifs Quotes by Rajneesh

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

— Rajneesh

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

— Rajneesh

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

— Rajneesh

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner…

— Rajneesh

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

— Rajneesh

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

— Rajneesh

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

— Rajneesh

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

— Rajneesh

If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists…

— Rajneesh

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a…

— Rajneesh

All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable…

— Rajneesh

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do…

— Rajneesh

Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears…

— Rajneesh

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

— Rajneesh

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will…

— Rajneesh

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it…

— Rajneesh

If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be…

— Rajneesh

Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are…

— Rajneesh

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities.…

— Rajneesh

If one can surrender, if one can trust the Master, one has surrendered to God, one has trusted God. And sooner or…

— Rajneesh

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has…

— Rajneesh

Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to…

— Rajneesh

Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody…

— Rajneesh

Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness…

— Rajneesh

I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more…

— Rajneesh

What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why…

— Rajneesh

Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If…

— Rajneesh

Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You…

— Rajneesh

The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it.…

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to…

— Rajneesh

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,…

— Rajneesh

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.

— Rajneesh

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

— Rajneesh

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

— Rajneesh

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

— Rajneesh

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

— Rajneesh

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

— Rajneesh