Quotes from Rajneesh

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.