Rajneesh Quotes

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.

To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all