Rajneesh Quotes

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Your nature is the Buddha.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nobody brainwashed me with God in my head or anything. I just saw this new reality, and I felt like I've been blinded, and I finally took the blindfolds off.

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.