Rajneesh Quotes

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Change isn't easy…. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, …. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.