LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As the ego becomes strong it starts surrounding intelligence like a thick layer of darkness. Intelligence is light, ego is darkness. Intelligence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The first awareness of the child comes with his ego. He becomes aware of the "I", not of the Self. Really, he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — 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
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The moment one starts sharing one's being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld That awareness is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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
The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole mystery lies.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory… — 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
