Rajneesh Quotes

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

You create a good future by creating a good present.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the right choices. This requires hard work, self-discipline, and an optimistic outlook, which will bring joy and freedom into your life now and in the future.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

I don't like closed systems.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.