Quotes from Rajneesh

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.