Rajneesh Quotes

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

No one is different from the other. I'm very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

Anyone who has not accepted Jesus, I want to be your brothers and sisters, too.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making value judgments. The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

Let's take everything just as it is.