Quotes by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“ I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally. It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp. You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou -- then you are it! ”

“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.”

“A mothers children are portraits of herself.”

“Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart”

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”

“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

“I dont want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise.”

“ I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering....”

“ The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. ”

“ I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. ”

“ 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.”

“Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. ”

“ I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to convey the mysteries that have become available to me. I will confuse you. ”

“If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally. ”

“ I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy. ”

“The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness”

“The true love is very momentary – but what a moment.”

“Your mind is continuously projecting – projecting itself”

This is one of the subtle things to be understood. We are always wise if we have to advise others but when we are in the same trap, with the same problem, the same crisis, we are not so wise. If somebody else comes to you with a problem, you will give him good advice and the advice may be right. But if you have the same problem you will not be able to give yourself the same advice. Why? Because when it is somebody else’s problem you are detached.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.