Rajneesh Quotes

Both heaven and hell are within us.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude. Osho really changed my life. Because the way that he spoke about emotion and the male and female energies in the world and how people react to the world around them, it's so simple, yet it has such a depth.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.