Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. — 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:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To my understanding, sex is your only energy, it is life energy. What you do with it depends on you. It can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say,… — 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
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless a person decides that 'Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You… — 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
