People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked… For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I say this, I don't mean that if you can love more people you will not go into marriage. As far… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a hell, but sometimes people need it. What to do? So I have to tell them to get into marriage.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will… — 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
