Quotes from Rajneesh

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

God is creativity, not a Creator.

God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

God is the collective ego of the world

God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.