Rajneesh Quotes

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I keep in touch with what's real.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Life is a state of consciousness.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.