Rajneesh Quotes

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

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

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

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.