Rajneesh Quotes

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The only journey is the one within.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

I find myself only by losing myself.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.