Quotes from Rajneesh

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

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 use others as a means.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.