2,217 Quotes by Rajneesh

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell – that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don’t expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Be – don’t try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy – it is really a wound, very painful.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.

You don’t want to loose your old friend – the misery – You have invested too much into false – Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true – to be naked as you are.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it – that is the only way to know it.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

The heart is always right – if there’s a question of choosing between the mind and the heart – because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself...