Quotes from Rajneesh

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

Don't get attached to anything.

You are creating your own hell.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

There is no God other than life itself.

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.