When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying… — 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
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not… — 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
