Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage… — 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
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every… — 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
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness… — 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
