Rajneesh Quotes

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message. Every gesture of his hand is pointing to the moon. And this whole thing is not being done, it is a happening. The master is not a doer. He has learned the greatest secret of life: let-go. The master has drowned his ego and the idea of separation from existence itself.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens.

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.