Rajneesh Quotes

We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel burdened. The goal is to realize that every moment of our lives is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel at the wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day, let the sun, a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that everything you could ever want has been provided and can be found right here on earth.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

The groves were God's first temples.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Prayer is where the action is.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.