Rajneesh Quotes

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.