Religion Quotes by Rajneesh

Jesus was a crackpot.

— Rajneesh

A religious person is a desireless person.

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Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

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Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

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My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following

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Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

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Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

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In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

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At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands…

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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because…

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Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

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The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

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Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live…

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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the…

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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any…

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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of…

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So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no…

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Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is…

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Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you…

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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the…

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Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has…

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In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless…

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Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all…

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Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the…

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Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates…

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It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are…

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Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to…

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Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of…

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Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

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Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love,…

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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into…

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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the…

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Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and…

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Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen…

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All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to…

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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

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