Rajneesh Quotes

There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know light. Ears say something about the sound; without ears you will not know anything about the sound. There is a sixth sense, the inner sense, that shows and tells you something about yourself and the ultimate source of things. That sense has to be discovered. Meditation is nothing but the discovery of the inner sense.

There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you are watching television, and something within you is witnessing the process of watching television. Witnessing is deeper, far deeper. It is not equivalent to watching. Watching is superficial. So remember that meditation is witnessing.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Listen to the voice that speaks inside

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.