Rajneesh Quotes

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

All conflict comes from attachment.

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Love without attachment is light.