Rajneesh Quotes

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.