Rajneesh Quotes

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.