Rajneesh Quotes

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

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

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

True humility is contentment.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.