“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.”

—  Rajneesh

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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update May 26, 2025. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "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…" by Rajneesh?
Rajneesh photo
Rajneesh 76
Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931–1990

Related quotes

Yann Martel photo

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj photo

“The Bhakta has only to surrender himself and do nothing else but he has to do a lot for doing nothing.”

Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj (1922–2013) spiritual leader

Indian Philosophy & Culture. Volume 12. Vrindāvan (India): Institute of Oriental Philosophy. 1967.

José Martí photo

“I know that when the world
surrenders, pallid, to repose,
the murmur of a tranquil stream
through the deep silence flows.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 275
Simple Verses (1891)

Desmond Tutu photo

“God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)

Prem Rawat photo
Zhiar Ali photo
Ajahn Chah photo
Conor Oberst photo

“The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

The Big Picture
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Related topics