Rajneesh Quotes About Life
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
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You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.
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Don't analyze, celebrate it.
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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
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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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Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.
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Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.
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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
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The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.
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Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each other, accidental, meaningless, a jumble, just a chance phenomenon. If you see the truth, everything falls into line, everything falls together in a harmony, everything starts having significance.
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The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.
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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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If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
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Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
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Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.
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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but if you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.
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Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever, after many lives, you knocked at the door, the girl would be waiting for you. But life is a flux, a movement. Every moment it is changing and becoming new. If you miss a moment, you have missed.
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Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed - its nature cannot be changed; everything alive is moving, changing - a flow, a liquid thing, flexible, able to move in any direction. The more you become certain, the more you will miss life. And those who know, know life is God. If you miss life, you miss God.
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If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.
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Don't get attached to anything.
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That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.
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In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
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Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.
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Life begins where fear ends.
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