Rajneesh Quotes

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

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.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.