Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

The universe is within us. We forget that and make up realities for ourselves that we are small and insignificant. Meditation brings us back to our natural state of consciousness.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

Truth is pure awareness.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.