Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

In reality, everything is within; the outer is just a projection. Fear is within you; it is projected as a hell. Hell is just a projected image on the screen - of the fear that is within you, of the anger, of the jealousy, of all that is poisonous in you, of all that is evil in you. Heaven is, again, a projected image on the screen - of all that is good and beautiful, of all that is blissful within you.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

I am what I feel and think and do.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.