Quotes from Rajneesh

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.