Rajneesh Quotes

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

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

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.

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

The actuality of thought is life.

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.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

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

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

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

To think and to be fully alive are the same.