Rajneesh: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

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Sad

“No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.”

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Never Born, Never Died (2002)
Context: Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

Life , Truth , Feeling , Heart

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

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Courageous

“Look for the mysterious in life.”

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My Way: The Way of the White Clouds (1995)
Context: Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved.

Life

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

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Source: The Buddha Said: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties

“Meaning is mancreated. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

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“Life is without purpose – life is its own purpose,
therefore he who lives without purpose truly lives.
Live! Isn’t living itself enough?”

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“One is not in love, one is love.”

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“The so-called mahatmas and saints are all cowards. I have never come across a single mahatma—Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist—who can be said to be really a rebellious spirit. Unless one is rebellious, one is not religious. Rebellion is the very foundation of religion.”

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Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 19

Religion

“I am the rich man's guru.”

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The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

“Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.”

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Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

“Near about twelve my eyes suddenly opened — I had not opened them. The sleep was broken by something else. I felt a great presence around me in the room. It was a very small room. I felt a throbbing life all around me, a great vibration — almost like a hurricane, a great storm of light, joy, ecstasy. I was drowning in it. It was so tremendously real that everything became unreal. The walls of the room became unreal, the house became unreal, my own body became unreal. Everything was unreal because now there was for the first time reality.”

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The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)

Life , Reality , Sleep , Light

“The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.”

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Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

Flowers

“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”

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Ancient Music in the Pines

“When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.”

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Satyam Shivam Sundaram

People , World , Hope , Courage

“The whole day was strange, stunning, and it was a shattering experience. The past was disappearing, as if it had never belonged to me, as if I had read about it somewhere, as if I had dreamed about it, as if it was somebody else's story I have heard and somebody told it to me. I was becoming loose from my past, I was being uprooted from my history, I was losing my autobiography. I was becoming a non-being, what Buddha calls anatta. Boundaries were disappearing, distinctions were disappearing.”

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The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)

Dreams , History , Reading , Past

“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”

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When the Shoe Fits

Beauty

“Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.”

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Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

“Man has nothing else to do but surrender — in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.”

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The Art of Dying ( osho.com http://www.osho.com/online-library-allow-silences-joke-5f0b06d0-61e.aspx; retrieved August 2012), Chapter 6, 14.
The Art of Dying

Love

“When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.”

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Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

Time