Rajneesh quotes - page 5

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. (Rajneesh)
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
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The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
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I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.
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Life begins where fear ends.
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Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
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Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
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Crowds create illusions.
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If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
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It is a strange thing,that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand ! (Rajneesh)
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
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Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
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First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.
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If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.
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There is no one lonelier than God!
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Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and thats what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
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Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can. And remember, I am not making any distinction between. small things and great things. If you can smile whole-heartedly, hold somebody's hand and smile, then it is a creative act, a great creative act. Just embrace somebody to your heart and you are creative. Just look with loving eyes at somebody; just a loving look can change the whole world of a person. (Rajneesh)
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
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Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.
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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
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