Rajneesh Quotes

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it - and don't carry parts because those parts won't allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Live in this moment as totally as possible, and suddenly you will come to realized, that if you live it totally, it is solved. There is no need to solve it. Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Accept the fact that you'll never get it all done, and begin to live more fully in the only moment you have ... Now.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!