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Reason Quotes by Rajneesh
- There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,…
- The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life…
- I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.…
- A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -…
- This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is…
- A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the…
- Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No…
- In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first…
- Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is…
- Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling…
- Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman…
- It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an…
- I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the…
- In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There…
- When I say this, I don't mean that if you can love more people you will not go into marriage. As far as I see,…
- I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire…
- My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you…
- Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able…
- Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be…
- You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead…
- Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It…
- This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy…
- I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough