Rajneesh Quotes

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

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

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.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

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

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

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

We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

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.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

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

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.

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

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

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

The mind is an enchanting thing.

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

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.