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Non Quotes by Rajneesh
- Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own…
- Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It…
- The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much…
- Surrendering means non-desiring.
- Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the…
- You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else…
- Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your…
- The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is…
- Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into…
- Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want…
- All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If…
- Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are.…
- And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their…
- Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole…
- First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest…
- My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if…
- People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness.…
- Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when…
- One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away…
- This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people,…
- To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce…
- Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks…
- Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
- A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy…
- Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you…
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- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
- I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. — Emmanuelle Beart
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- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
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