Rajneesh Quotes

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

The only journey is the one within.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

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

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.