Quotes from Rajneesh

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Don't analyze, celebrate it.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.