Quotes from Rajneesh

In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

There is no one lonelier than God!

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.

Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.