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Indian guru, Birth: 11-12-1931 Rajneesh Quotes
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Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
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Uncover your true identity, otherwise you have to rely on the views of those who do not comprehend themselves.
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if
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If passion cannot unite you, nothing else can maintain your bond. And if
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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.
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Authentic liberty is always metaphysical. It connects to your core essence, which cannot be restrained, bound, or confined.
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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
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The primary query is not whether existence persists beyond the grave. The cardinal inquiry is whether you are alive prior to death.
Similar Authors: Sri Chinmoy Sathya Sai Baba Paramahansa Yogananda Mata Amritanandamayi Ramana Maharshi Sri Aurobindo Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Chogyam Trungpa Guru Nanak A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Neem Karoli Baba Prem Rawat Guru Gobind Singh Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Guru Amar Das
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Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
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'No one is superior, no one is inferior, but everyone is distinct. Everyone is different and incomparable. You are you and I am I.'
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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At the instant of childbirth, a female transforms into a matriarch. She has never been in this role before. The lady existed, but not as a parent. A mother is something entirely unprecedented.
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You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
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You are not an afterthought. The world needs you. Without you, a vital element will be absent in the universe and no one can substitute it.
Quote Topics by Rajneesh: Meditation Men Mean Life Mind Spiritual People Love Beautiful Real Inspirational Love Is Moving Creativity Ego Thinking Heart Children Marriage Giving Art Past Laughter Flower Happiness Light Relationship Two Sex Silence
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
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Presently is the only truth. All else is either recollection or fancy.
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Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
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Don't attempt to control anything. Allow yourself to be free of apprehension. Divinity nurtures innumerable blooms every day without compelling their petals.
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Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.
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The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
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'The entirety of existence is a maelstrom. But when one discovers the nucleus, the tempest dissipates. This void is the highest pinnacle of awareness.'
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Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
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Life is an open slate; it can be whatever you choose to make it. You can opt for sorrow or joy. This autonomy is your honor.
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Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
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The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
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If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.
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I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.
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The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.
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In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
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The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.
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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
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Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
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A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.
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Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
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These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.
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God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.
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Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path
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One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.
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Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
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People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more gadgets. Tomorrow they will love - today there is no time. But tomorrow never comes, and one day they find themselves burdened with all kinds of gadgets, burdened with money. They have come to the top of the ladder - and there is nowhere to go except to jump in a lake.
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One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
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First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.
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Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not being against sex, rather it is changing the whole energy from the sex center to the higher centers. When it reaches to the seventh center of man, the sahasrar, then brahmacharya happens. If it remains in the first center, muladhar, then sex; when it reaches to the seventh center, then samadhi. The same energy moves. It is not being against it; rather, it is an art how to use it.
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In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.
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The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.
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All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you.
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One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.
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Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.
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I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.
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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
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What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation.
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
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That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
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My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.
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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
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