Rajneesh Quotes

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

Breathing is my best ally. By doing simple breathing exercises, I can quickly come back to center and feel more grounded.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.