Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.

Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.