Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you go into it, it is marriage that has created prostitution. And prostitution will never disappear from the world unless marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have been teaching you all the methods of meditation. You can choose any method that suits you. There are only one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically… — 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 process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is… — 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
You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong. Only between two equal persons is there a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there… — 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
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in… — 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
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready;… — 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
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a… — 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
