Rajneesh Quotes

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

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

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

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

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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