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First Quotes by Rajneesh
- First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do…
- Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware…
- First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because…
- You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it…
- Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the…
- First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely…
- Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the…
- You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the…
- When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.
- Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more…
- Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness,…
- As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have…
- During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,…
- Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have…
- First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter; you are full,…
- You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you…
- That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
- To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can…
- In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath:…
- Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it,…
- Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound…
- Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely…
- The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.…
- See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first…
- Being in deep devotion comes as a surprise the first time, because it is so difficult for people to feel even love, and devotion is…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong