Rajneesh Quotes

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. When you're dating a man, you should always feel good. ... You shouldn't be in a relationship with somebody who doesn't make you completely happy and make you feel whole.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man is the one who finds his glory in God. Give what you have to give, and it will come back to you. All materials to build thy home in this world or the inner cosmic worlds come from within, from the God center in thy heart.