Rajneesh Quotes

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

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.

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.