Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to… — 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
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live… — 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
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
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
