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title: "75 Desire Quotes By Rajneesh"
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> [The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-future-is-needed-as-a-space-to-project-your-desires-to-project/)

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> [The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-desire-to-rule-over-others-the-will-to-power-is-one-of-the/)

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> [The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-ego-can-exist-only-with-goals-ambitions-desires/)

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> [Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/those-otherworldly-desires-were-just-as-foolish-as-the-worldly-desires/)

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> [When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-desiring-ceases-the-other-world-opens-the-other-world-is-hidden/)

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> [Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/consciousness-means-choicelessness-and-to-be-choiceless-is-to-be-free/)

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> [There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-is-no-other-revolution-except-consciousness-it-cuts-the-desires/)

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> [The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-day-effort-ceased-i-also-ceased-because-you-cannot-exist-without/)

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> [When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-your-desires-drop-the-world-is-there-but-it-is-a-totally-new/)

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> [Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/desire-disappears-as-you-become-more-and-more-aware-when-awareness-is/)

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> [As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/as-long-as-the-i-is-there-love-cannot-be-all-that-we-call-love-is/)

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> [Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/existence-does-not-listen-to-your-desires-and-does-not-follow-your/)

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> [When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-you-have-emptied-all-content-thoughts-desires-memories/)

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> [If you have really experienced the inner light, sex will disappear. Love will happen to you, but sex will disappear; sexuality will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/if-you-have-really-experienced-the-inner-light-sex-will-disappear/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-is-a-tremendous-desire-and-longing-for-love-but-love-needs/)

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> [Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/where-does-the-ego-get-its-energy-the-ego-feeds-off-your-desire-to-be/)

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> [A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-small-child-has-no-ambitions-he-has-no-desires-he-is-so-absorbed-in/)

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> [Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/ordinarily-even-when-people-become-religious-they-go-on-thinking-in/)

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> [Once a person is at the center of love, there is very rarely a possibility for him to fall back down, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/once-a-person-is-at-the-center-of-love-there-is-very-rarely-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-ordinary-marriage-is-an-unconscious-bondage-you-cannot-live-alone/)

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> [When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-sex-desire-arises-one-simply-pays-total-attention-to-it-not/)

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> [When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-there-is-no-thought-no-desire-no-ambition-in-that-state-of-no/)

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> [What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/what-do-you-think-who-are-these-people-who-have-depicted-heaven-as-a/)

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> [Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/buddha-says-this-is-how-one-should-be-no-desire-because-all-desires/)

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> [Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/everybody-is-looking-with-his-own-world-of-desires-expectations/)

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> [We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/we-are-afraid-of-love-because-love-is-a-small-death-love-requires/)

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> [The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-life-of-a-sannyasin-should-be-a-life-of-no-expectations-and-then/)

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> [I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-am-not-saying-that-you-should-renounce-things-that-you-should/)

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> [I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-have-been-misunderstood-perhaps-more-than-anyone-else-ever-but-it/)

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> [Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/only-when-all-your-desires-disappear-does-that-energy-become/)

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> [Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-is-power-the-purest-power-and-the-greatest-power-love-is-god/)

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> [When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-this-awareness-grows-dreaming-stops-by-and-by-when-this/)

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> [It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-has-nothing-to-do-with-your-desires-and-their-fulfillment-with/)

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> [The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-total-absence-of-desire-brings-happiness-it-also-brings-freedom/)

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> [Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/experiment-with-this-a-little-during-these-days-that-you-are-here/)

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> [When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-there-is-nothing-to-desire-there-is-nothing-to-dream-about/)

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> [Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/man-is-almost-mad-mad-because-he-is-seeking-something-which-he-has/)

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> [When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-you-don-t-cling-to-anything-there-is-nowhere-to-go-all-boats/)

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> [Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/mind-is-a-crowd-of-many-desires-it-is-not-a-single-desire-mind-is/)

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> [Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/once-the-ego-is-not-there-there-is-no-expectation-frustration-no/)

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> [It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-all-depends-on-you-you-can-go-on-sleeping-forever-you-can-wake-up/)

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> [The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-greatest-mystery-in-life-is-not-life-itself-but-death-death-is/)

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> [This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-mind-is-a-prison-it-cannot-find-any-freedom-anywhere-it-must-die/)

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> [Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/never-belong-to-a-crowd-never-belong-to-a-nation-never-belong-to-a/)

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> [Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/money-should-not-be-in-the-hands-of-individuals-otherwise-it-will/)

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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 that marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-is-going-to-disappear-should-disappear-and-now-the-point-is/)

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> [A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-mature-mind-is-one-who-understands-the-impossibility-of-knowing-the/)

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> [The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-word-religion-comes-from-an-origin-which-means-coming-together/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

> [Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-and-laughter-go-together-and-laughter-is-one-of-the-greatest/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

> [There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-are-people-who-want-to-become-rich-they-become-rich-if-you/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

> [Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-take-one-thing-out-and-the-whole-palace-the-whole-edifice-of-the/)

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> [To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/to-me-man-means-awareness-of-death-i-am-not-saying-become-afraid-of/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

> [So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/so-your-life-becomes-a-vital-celebration-your-relationship-becomes-a/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

> ["Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/serenity-is-the-flavor-of-meditation/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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                        "text": "The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.",
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                        "text": "When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.",
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                        "text": "When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of truth is concerned both are the same, because in the world of the innermost subjectivity height and depth mean the same. It is one dimension: the vertical dimension. Mind moves horizontally, no-mind exists vertically. The moment the mind ceases to function - that's what meditation is all about: cessation of the mind, total cessation of the mind - your consciousness becomes vertical; depth and height are yours.",
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                        "text": "What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.",
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                        "text": "Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the present. All desires distract you from the present, all desires distract you from life, all desires are destructive of life, all desires are postponements of life. Life is now and the desire takes you away, farther and farther away from now. And when we see that our life is misery we go on throwing the responsibility on others, and nobody is responsible except us.",
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                        "text": "Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and your world; that's why you don't ever see it as it is. Once your eye is completely clean, clean of all the dust, once it becomes a pure mirror, it reflects that which is. And that is truth and truth liberates, but it has to be your own. My truth cannot liberate you, Buddha's truth cannot liberate you. There is only one possibility of liberation, that is your own truth. And all that you have to do is to create a dispassionate eye.",
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                        "text": "We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all. We would like the OTHER to surrender, we would like the other to be a slave. But the same is the desire from the other side: man wants the woman to be a slave; and of course the woman also wants the same, the SAME desire is there. Their methods of enslaving each other may be different, but the desire is the same.",
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                        "text": "The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever God gives is so much. Then you always feel grateful. But your desires are so much that whatsoever God gives always looks so little; and you feel frustrated, and you feel complaints, and you cannot feel grateful. And without gratitude, there is no possibility of prayer arising in your heart. Gratitude is prayer.",
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                        "text": "I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.",
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                        "text": "I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me.",
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                        "text": "Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy moves into compassion. And this movement is very different. Desire has a motivation in it, a goal; compassion is nonmotivated, there is no goal to it, it is simply overflowing energy.",
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