The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it. — 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
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
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way… — 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
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need… — 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