--- title: "21 Higher Quotes By Rajneesh" description: "21 Higher quotes by Rajneesh. Plus more from Rajneesh and more Higher sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/rajneesh-54_higher_love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth_398200.jpg" --- > [Love is not a higher quality than truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/rajneesh-54_higher_love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth_398200.jpg) > [Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/religion-is-consciousness-raising-it-raises-you-higher-than-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/rajneesh-54_bird_religion-is-consciousness-raising-it-rai_463271.jpg) > [Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/freedom-is-not-to-be-destroyed-in-the-name-of-love-freedom-is-a-far/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/rajneesh-54_destroyed_freedom-is-not-to-be-destroyed-in-the-na_2169218.jpg) > [Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/nobody-can-teach-you-love-love-you-have-to-find-yourself-within-your/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6a/rajneesh-54_consciousness_nobody-can-teach-you-love-love-you-have_1071024.jpg) > [Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/zen-is-all-inclusive-it-never-denies-it-never-says-no-to-anything-it/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/rajneesh-54_accepting_zen-is-all-inclusive-it-never-denies-it_1523345.jpg) > [I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-am-going-to-be-contradictory-to-myself-many-times-for-the-simple/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bc/rajneesh-54_am_i-am-going-to-be-contradictory-to-myself_760462.jpg) > [Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-your-laughter-will-be-enough-to-prevent-the-war-your-celebration/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e64/rajneesh-54_affirmative_just-your-laughter-will-be-enough-to-pre_600760.jpg) > [Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/your-freedom-is-a-supreme-value-nothing-is-higher-than-that-but-your/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/rajneesh-54_consciousness_your-freedom-is-a-supreme-value-nothing_1499685.jpg) > [This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don't divide yourself. There is nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-has-to-be-your-first-lesson-in-sannyas-accept-yourself-love/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b49/rajneesh-54_accept-yourself_this-has-to-be-your-first-lesson-in-sann_2645306.jpg) > [Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/man-has-been-condemning-women-perhaps-there-is-a-reason-perhaps-he/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19c/rajneesh-54_century_man-has-been-condemning-women-perhaps-th_1265746.jpg) > [When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/when-a-monk-goes-away-from-the-world-he-goes-fighting-with-it-it-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/759/rajneesh-54_attractive_when-a-monk-goes-away-from-the-world-he_594556.jpg) > [Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-is-power-the-purest-power-and-the-greatest-power-love-is-god/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/rajneesh-54_concern_love-is-power-the-purest-power-and-the-g_1239787.jpg) > [Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/because-all-the-societies-all-the-nations-all-the-cultures-have-taken/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/rajneesh-54_accepting_because-all-the-societies-all-the-nation_2207564.jpg) > [Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/brahmacharya-is-not-against-sex-if-it-is-against-sex-then-sex-can/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e0/rajneesh-54_art_brahmacharya-is-not-against-sex-if-it-is_239900.jpg) > [Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/have-you-watched-it-a-man-who-is-too-greedy-about-money-by-and-by/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/rajneesh-54_greedy_have-you-watched-it-a-man-who-is-too-gre_1648148.jpg) > [I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-am-absolutely-against-positive-thinking-you-will-be-surprised-that/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/rajneesh-54_awareness_i-am-absolutely-against-positive-thinkin_808211.jpg) > [Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/your-ego-may-be-just-a-soap-bubble-maybe-for-a-few-seconds-it-will/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/rajneesh-54_air_your-ego-may-be-just-a-soap-bubble-maybe_329357.jpg) > [And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/and-that-is-the-trouble-with-all-lovers-they-want-more-love-because/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98c/rajneesh-54_and-love_and-that-is-the-trouble-with-all-lovers_281559.jpg) > [We need not worry about the future, we need not be prophetic about the future, we need not say a single thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/we-need-not-worry-about-the-future-we-need-not-be-prophetic-about-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/rajneesh-54_celebration_we-need-not-worry-about-the-future-we-ne_964279.jpg) > [Hence there are so many kinds of love and so many kinds of compassion. But the basic, the most fundamental, is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/hence-there-are-so-many-kinds-of-love-and-so-many-kinds-of-compassion/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/805/rajneesh-54_caught_hence-there-are-so-many-kinds-of-love-an_178046.jpg) > [Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/remember-that-hate-is-not-the-opposite-of-love-as-people-think-hate/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/rajneesh-54_disappear_remember-that-hate-is-not-the-opposite-o_622597.jpg) ## Other authors on Higher ## More by Rajneesh > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/because-of-the-womb-being-a-central-phenomenon-in-the-feminine-body/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/it-all-depends-on-you-you-can-go-on-sleeping-forever-you-can-wake-up/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-greatest-mystery-in-life-is-not-life-itself-but-death-death-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/this-mind-is-a-prison-it-cannot-find-any-freedom-anywhere-it-must-die/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/never-belong-to-a-crowd-never-belong-to-a-nation-never-belong-to-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/money-should-not-be-in-the-hands-of-individuals-otherwise-it-will/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/marriage-is-going-to-disappear-should-disappear-and-now-the-point-is/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-mature-mind-is-one-who-understands-the-impossibility-of-knowing-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/the-word-religion-comes-from-an-origin-which-means-coming-together/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-and-laughter-go-together-and-laughter-is-one-of-the-greatest/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/there-are-people-who-want-to-become-rich-they-become-rich-if-you/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/just-take-one-thing-out-and-the-whole-palace-the-whole-edifice-of-the/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/to-me-man-means-awareness-of-death-i-am-not-saying-become-afraid-of/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > [So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/so-your-life-becomes-a-vital-celebration-your-relationship-becomes-a/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) > ["Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/serenity-is-the-flavor-of-meditation/) [Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/higher/rajneesh/#itemlist", "name": "21 Higher Quotes By Rajneesh", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Love is not a higher quality than truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rajneesh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/rajneesh-54_higher_love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth_398200.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/rajneesh-54_higher_love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth_398200.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/rajneesh-54_higher_love-is-not-a-higher-quality-than-truth_398200.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Love is not a higher quality than truth.” — Rajneesh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Religion is consciousness-raising. 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Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. 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If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not being against sex, rather it is changing the whole energy from the sex center to the higher centers. When it reaches to the seventh center of man, the sahasrar, then brahmacharya happens. If it remains in the first center, muladhar, then sex; when it reaches to the seventh center, then samadhi. The same energy moves. 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