Rajneesh Quotes

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.