Rajneesh Quotes

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

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.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.