Rajneesh Quotes

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Reason is the illusion of reality

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it