Rajneesh Quotes

There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are - but you don't have any notion of being an ego, of being an I. In other words: the more you think you are, the less you are; the more you experience that you are not... the more you are.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.