Freedom Quotes by Rajneesh

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

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Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

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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.

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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

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To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

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Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

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The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom…

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The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end…

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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the…

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Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas,…

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Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that…

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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…

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I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating…

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Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is…

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Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being…

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Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up…

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'Freedom' means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with…

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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…

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Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your…

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Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do.…

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When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you…

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Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds…

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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…

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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when…

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Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only…

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Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.…

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Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness…

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It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

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When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.

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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into…

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People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

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Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

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I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his…

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When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the…

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Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because…

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Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged…

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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…

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