One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more… — 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
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years,… — 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
The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things… — 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
