Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever… — 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
