Rajneesh Quotes

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

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

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Take time to be quiet.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.