Rajneesh Quotes
You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.
If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.
Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.
The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.
Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.
Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself.
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.
First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.
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.
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.
The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.
If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.
The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.
