Quotes from Rajneesh

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!