Rajneesh Quotes

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

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

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

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

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.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

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

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.