Rajneesh Quotes

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.