I have been continuously surprised by people who come to me and say they are afraid of love. What is the fear… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jesus moved in a very poor world. People were seeking their own solutions. Many were helped - not that Jesus was helping… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By 'God' I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension… — Rajneesh Copy Share
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in… — Rajneesh Copy Share
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share
