Rajneesh Quotes

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.