Rajneesh Quotes

• NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

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  Life, Memories, Past

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• Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.

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  Flower, Compassion, Rose

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• Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

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  Love, Giving, Ego

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• Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

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  God, Way

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• Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.

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  Past, Meditation, Way

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

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  Love, People, Over You

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• Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

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  Unique, People, Equal

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• Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want the taste of the Tao you have to move to no-mind, to Meditation.

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  Moving, Giving, Meditation

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• If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

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  Philosophical, Heaven, Suffering

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• The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

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  Heart, Mma, Greatest Fear

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• The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

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  Flower, Heart, World

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• Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

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  Integrity, Moving, Maturity

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• Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

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  Jealousy, Attitude, Unique

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

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  Heart, Expectations, Frustrated

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

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  Spiritual, Real, Alive

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• The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

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  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

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  Life, Missing, Needs

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• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

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  Creativity, Misery, Canvas

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• Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

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  Light, Live Your Life, Lions

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• Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.

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  Echoes, Foundation

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• Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

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  God, Letting Go, Flower

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• It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

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  Love, What Matters, Rose

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• The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

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  Hurt, Jealous, Giving

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• Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

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  Love, Training, Culture

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• If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

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  Heart, School, Coward

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