Rajneesh Quotes

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Your soul is Me, and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that. And what it is remembering is that the best way to have this experience is by not doing anything. There is nothing to do but to be.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.