Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless a person decides that 'Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits… — 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 Image
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
