Rajneesh Quotes

The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each individual thought and finally nothing is left. There is no mind as such, only thinking.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

I have no inner monologue.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.