Marriage Quotes by Rajneesh

You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'

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Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

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Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman…

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Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had…

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Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a…

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Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has…

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Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never…

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Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives…

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As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is…

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What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces.…

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There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax…

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You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is…

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If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put…

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I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for…

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One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around.…

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The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live…

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What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent.…

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Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible…

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Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created…

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One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise.…

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But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of…

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But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.…

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Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only…

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Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the…

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I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so…

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To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live…

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I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage?…

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I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three…

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Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so…

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So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they…

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Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement;…

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Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that…

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Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back.…

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And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the…

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People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments!…

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It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You…

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Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something…

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We have forced everyone to go into marriage because of love. Because you cannot love outside it, so we have unnecessarily forced…

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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have…

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