Rajneesh Quotes

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

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

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

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

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.