Rajneesh Quotes

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.