Rajneesh Quotes

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don't try to become. Within these two words — being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love...

Remember one thing. That you should not leave the Earth until you have made it a little more beautiful. A little lovelier. A little more loving.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!

you cannot understand a thing, you begin to abuse it because it insults you. You cannot understand it! You? YOU cannot understand it? That is impossible. Something must be wrong with the thing itself. One begins to abuse, one begins to talk nonsense, and then he feels, “Now it is okay.

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

Once you are incapable of loving yourself, you will never be able to love anybody. That is an absolute truth, there are no exceptions to it. You can love others only if you are able to love yourself.

كل التطورات الأخيرة في فلسفة الغرب تشير إلى انه قد يكون الانتحار هو الحل الوحيد , طبعا أن كنت تجهل عالمك الداخلي وتملك كل ما يمكن أن يقدمه العالم الخارجي لك يصبح الانتحار الحل الوحيد

Always remember that whatsoever is happening to you, is happening within you, and whatsoever you are doing, you are doing with yourself. Even when you are angry and hitting somebody else, you are doing something with yourself. The other is just a screen on which you project.

If you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.

You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

"غريب حقاً, حرصكم على أطفالكم عندما يمرضون انكم لاتفهمون " سيكلوجيا التداعي " حين يترابط الحب والمرض , فكلما شعر الطفل بحاجة الى حبك ,ادعى المرض . ومن ذا الذي يعتني بطفل سليم الصحة أوبزوجة أو زوج معافيين؟.وكأن الحب كالدواء لايحتاجه إالا المرضى"

The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.