Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Everyday life surrounds us in a swirling chaos, and it's easy to fall into the grip of our ego's fears and confusion. Remind yourself each day of your intentions and spiritual purpose. Meditate, find your center, look closely at yourself, and don't let go of your intention until it feels centered inside yourself.

Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.