Rajneesh Quotes

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.