Rajneesh Quotes

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.