Rajneesh Quotes

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them. That does not mean to be a cold person. Rather, it means not to be caught and dragged around by circumstances.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only emptiness; it is always unfulfilled. By the very nature, by its very intrinsic nature, it cannot attain to fulfillment. When you are not, fulfillment is. Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like - samadhi - the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you disappear.

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

Love without attachment is light.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.