Rajneesh Quotes

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.