--- title: "13 Listening Quotes By Rajneesh" description: "13 Listening quotes by Rajneesh. Plus more from Rajneesh and more Listening sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/rajneesh-54_communication_listening-means-forgetting-yourself-comp_273680.jpg" --- > [Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/listening-means-forgetting-yourself-completely-only-then-can-you/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/rajneesh-54_communication_listening-means-forgetting-yourself-comp_273680.jpg) > [When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-then-listening-becomes-possible/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/rajneesh-54_awareness_when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-t_2066764.jpg) > [Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/don-t-be-angry-at-life-it-is-not-life-that-is-frustrating-you-it-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f7/rajneesh-54_angry_don-t-be-angry-at-life-it-is-not-life-th_777317.jpg) > [If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/if-you-ask-zen-people-they-will-say-tea-is-not-something-that-you/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/rajneesh-54_asks_if-you-ask-zen-people-they-will-say-tea_2766479.jpg) > [You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/you-are-daydreaming-about-the-future-because-you-have-not-tasted-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/rajneesh-54_bird_you-are-daydreaming-about-the-future-bec_782406.jpg) > [Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/listening-is-totally-different-from-hearing-hearing-anybody-who-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/344/rajneesh-54_absolutes_listening-is-totally-different-from-hear_1171044.jpg) > [Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/meditation-is-not-something-you-do-in-the-morning-and-you-are/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/rajneesh-54_climate_meditation-is-not-something-you-do-in-th_146444.jpg) > [Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/meditation-means-awareness-whatsoever-you-do-with-awareness-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/rajneesh-54_action_meditation-means-awareness-whatsoever-yo_695952.jpg) > [A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-he-is-a-man-of-awareness-he/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/rajneesh-54_available_a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-h_3189661.jpg) > [Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-unnecessarily-burdened-with/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/rajneesh-54_all-kinds_avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-u_429415.jpg) > [We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/we-have-been-distracted-into-unnatural-motivations-money-prestige/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/rajneesh-54_butterfly_we-have-been-distracted-into-unnatural-m_556448.jpg) > [Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/meditation-is-totally-different-when-you-concentrate-you-close-your/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/rajneesh-54_aeroplanes_meditation-is-totally-different-when-you_2870157.jpg) > [How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don't choose choicelessness! Otherwise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/how-not-to-choose-is-the-whole-art-of-religion-how-to-drop-into-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/rajneesh-54_art_how-not-to-choose-is-the-whole-art-of-re_588318.jpg) ## Other authors on Listening ## More by Rajneesh > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/because-of-the-womb-being-a-central-phenomenon-in-the-feminine-body/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-all-depends-on-you-you-can-go-on-sleeping-forever-you-can-wake-up/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-greatest-mystery-in-life-is-not-life-itself-but-death-death-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-mind-is-a-prison-it-cannot-find-any-freedom-anywhere-it-must-die/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/never-belong-to-a-crowd-never-belong-to-a-nation-never-belong-to-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/money-should-not-be-in-the-hands-of-individuals-otherwise-it-will/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-is-going-to-disappear-should-disappear-and-now-the-point-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-mature-mind-is-one-who-understands-the-impossibility-of-knowing-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-word-religion-comes-from-an-origin-which-means-coming-together/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-and-laughter-go-together-and-laughter-is-one-of-the-greatest/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-are-people-who-want-to-become-rich-they-become-rich-if-you/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-take-one-thing-out-and-the-whole-palace-the-whole-edifice-of-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/to-me-man-means-awareness-of-death-i-am-not-saying-become-afraid-of/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/so-your-life-becomes-a-vital-celebration-your-relationship-becomes-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > ["Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/serenity-is-the-flavor-of-meditation/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/listening/rajneesh/#itemlist", "name": "13 Listening Quotes By Rajneesh", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rajneesh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/listening-means-forgetting-yourself-completely-only-then-can-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/rajneesh-54_communication_listening-means-forgetting-yourself-comp_273680.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/rajneesh-54_communication_listening-means-forgetting-yourself-comp_273680.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/rajneesh-54_communication_listening-means-forgetting-yourself-comp_273680.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.” — Rajneesh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rajneesh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-then-listening-becomes-possible/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/rajneesh-54_awareness_when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-t_2066764.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/rajneesh-54_awareness_when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-t_2066764.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/rajneesh-54_awareness_when-you-listen-with-perfect-awareness-t_2066764.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.” — Rajneesh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't be angry at life. 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You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rajneesh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-he-is-a-man-of-awareness-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/rajneesh-54_available_a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-h_3189661.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/rajneesh-54_available_a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-h_3189661.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/rajneesh-54_available_a-buddha-is-not-a-man-of-concentration-h_3189661.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. 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Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rajneesh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-unnecessarily-burdened-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/rajneesh-54_all-kinds_avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-u_429415.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/rajneesh-54_all-kinds_avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-u_429415.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/rajneesh-54_all-kinds_avoid-such-situations-in-which-you-are-u_429415.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. 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