Rajneesh Quotes

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

I'm actually very spiritual.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.