Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — 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
Our whole attitude about life is money-oriented. And money is one of the most uncreative things one can become interested in. Our… — 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
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record… — 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
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
The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know… — 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
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
If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will… — 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
Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a hell, but sometimes people need it. What to do? So I have to tell them to get into marriage.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever commandments are given they create difficulties for people, because by the time they are given they are already out of date.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only the childlike consciousness is capable of understanding all that is beautiful in life, all that is great in existence. And the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within… — 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
I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus.… — 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
And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — 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
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
