Rajneesh Quotes

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.