Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Solitude helps you reflect.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.