Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind. — 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
Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind. — 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:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind.… — 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
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be… — 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
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — 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
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority -… — 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
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
