Rajneesh Quotes

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can sit joyously alone for months, for years. He does not hanker for the other, because his own inner ecstasy is so much, is so overpowering, that who bothers about the other?

With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Stay in your heart.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.