Rajneesh Quotes

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.