The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak

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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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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you toge... by Rajneesh

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

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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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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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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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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your bei... by Rajneesh

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

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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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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

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When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

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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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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination... by Rajneesh

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

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Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because to will means to keep yourself separate from existence. It is a little subtle, but try to feel it. The moment you will it means you are always willing against things as they are. You want them to be some other way.

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Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yo... by Rajneesh

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

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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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To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

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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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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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The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release... by Rajneesh

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

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