Rajneesh Quotes

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Silence is the most powerful state.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

With time, you learn to be calmer.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.