Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the… — 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
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word 'ecstasy' is beautiful; it simply means 'standing out.' Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'Freedom' means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your… — 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
It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science… — 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
Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep… — 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
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't… — 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
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
