Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole… — 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
It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands… — 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
Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to… — 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
