Rajneesh Quotes

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Humans are animals of habit.

They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...