Rajneesh quotes

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. (Rajneesh)
To avoid pain, people avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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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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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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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful.
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Meaning is mancreated. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
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No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
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Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
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You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.
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Love is the goal, life is the journey. (Rajneesh)
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.
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The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
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Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.
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Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. (Rajneesh)
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
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I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
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Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.
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