Rajneesh Quotes

I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.