One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don't choose; neither this nor that - you simply don't choose.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is slowly, slowly moving towards love relationships; hence there is great turmoil. All the old institutions are disappearing - they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all… — 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
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
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
When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen… — 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
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — 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
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
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong. Only between two equal persons is there a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the… — 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
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
