Rajneesh Quotes

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.