Spirituality Quotes by Rajneesh

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

— Rajneesh

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

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Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the…

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Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed…

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Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of…

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The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints…[The] man who is…

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The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of…

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Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a…

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Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation,…

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Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And…

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Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and…

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Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because…

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Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all…

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Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you…

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When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You don´t even expect gratitude…

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Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your…

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If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,…

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When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline.…

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The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created…

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Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be…

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Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He…

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In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science…

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A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It…

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The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He…

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Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts…

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I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it.…

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Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you…

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Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all…

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Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person…

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There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological.…

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From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light.…

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Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you…

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Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has…

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With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the…

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I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is…

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God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will…

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When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are…

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People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,…

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To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever…

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