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
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
Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — 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
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — 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
How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don`t choose choicelessness! Otherwise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — 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
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for… — 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
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
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no… — 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
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
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and… — 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
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is… — 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
