Rajneesh Quotes

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Freedom resides within the soul.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of our oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake we all make is to identify ourselves with some content of consciousness rather than with consciousness itself. Some people get their identity from their feelings, others from their thoughts, others from their social roles. But this identification with a part of the personality destroys the freedom which comes from the experience of the pure “I”.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

You find freedom inside - nowhere else. In the heart of every being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.

Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.