Rajneesh Quotes

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

We die, and we do not die.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

I want to be remembered.

I would just like to be remembered.

I shall not altogether die.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

I actually do believe in life after death.

You exist only in what you do.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.