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Joy Quotes by Rajneesh

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Joy is described as the feeling that pushes us to act with love instead of fear. Rajneesh says that when we let go of our own suffering, we make space for happiness and zest, which keeps life lively. He also points out that seeing beauty makes sadness fade, and love fills an empty heart.

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One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous…

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How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this,…

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Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more…

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Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are…

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As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

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To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words…

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Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to…

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There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of…

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Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny…

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When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is…

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When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You don´t even expect gratitude…

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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful…

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All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it…

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Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their…

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Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then…

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To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to…

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There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts…

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Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside…

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These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a…

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The Earth is beautiful. If you start living its beauty, enjoying its joys with no guilt in your heart, you are in…

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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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Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the…

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The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and…

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The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and…

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Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your…

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Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you…

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If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing…

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Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

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Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state…

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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your…

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Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate…

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When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you…

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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,…

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God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will…

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Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to…

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To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate…

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People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,…

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There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings…

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Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or…

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