2,217 Quotes by Rajneesh

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...

Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the master - not you and not your soul! The mind says: Do this! And you do it! If you don't the mind creates problems. It become sad, and the sadness of the mind becomes your sadness. If you do as it says you get nowhere, for the mind is blind. Where can you reach by obeying the mind! The is unconsciousness. If you listen to it you reach nowhere.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.