Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

Rajneesh

There is no God other than life itself.

Rajneesh

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Rajneesh

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

Rajneesh

God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

Rajneesh

By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

Rajneesh

God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there is nobody to worship. All your worship is sheer stupidity, all your images of God are your own creation. There is no God as such, but there is godliness, certainly - in the flowers, in the birds, in the stars, in the eyes of the people, when a song arises in the heart and poetry surrounds you... all this is God. Let us say `godliness` rather than using the word `God` - that word gives you the idea of a person, and God is not a person but a presence.

Rajneesh

Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation.

Rajneesh

What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

Rajneesh

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

Rajneesh

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Rajneesh

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

Rajneesh

There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

Rajneesh

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

Rajneesh

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Rajneesh

If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God.

Rajneesh

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Socrates

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Michael Shermer

'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things.

John Owen

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

John Milton

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

John Milton

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

John Milton

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

John Milton

Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

John Milton

These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

Miguel de Cervantes

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Miguel de Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

John Muir

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.