Rajneesh Quotes

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

He that lives in love lives in God.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.