Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being... — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — 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
