Rajneesh Quotes

Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to do with your expectations and your desires. You just let it come in; don't block the way. Remove yourself out of your own way. This time, with no expectations, no desires, no hopes, just meditate.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

I have no expectations. None at all.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

Don't get attached to anything.

Don't get too attached to anything.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

I've learned to not have expectations. If you don't expect things from anyone, you can't get let down.

To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it... What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, "Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go."

It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a thousand and one opportunities to be frustrated so that you can understand that expectations are not good and dreams are futile and desires are never fulfilled. Then you drop desiring, you drop dreaming, you drop proposing. Suddenly you are back home and the treasure is there.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you.

The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.