Rajneesh Quotes

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

At times I think and at times I am.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.