Rajneesh Quotes

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

One of the biggest things I struggle with in life is not being present. I'm worried about my future or I'm dwelling on my past, and I'm wondering why I'm not feeling so great right now, but it's because I'm everywhere else, besides what is currently happening in front of me.