Rajneesh Quotes

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

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.

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.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

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

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Silence is the most powerful state.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.