Rajneesh Quotes

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

When I win, I'm happy. When I lose, I'm also happy. I'm grateful for this life I have to live. It's a great life.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.