All Rajneesh Quotes
- A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… Alive
- The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him. Able
- Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his… Became
- The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools… All
- All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed… All
- Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself… All
- Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative. Affirmative
- But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If… Been
- Jesus moved in a very poor world. People were seeking their own solutions. Many were helped - not that Jesus was helping - they were… Christ
- Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there were only three… Age
- Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And… Abrupt
- When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… Activity
- Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage. Ambition
- The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… All
- We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to… Ambition
- Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you,… Ambition
- Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become… Ambition
- The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have… Ambition
- Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound… All
- Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take… Ambition
- All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If… Able
- Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far… Alcohol
- Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find… Active
- Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty… Any
- The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness. Choice