Quotes from Rajneesh

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Just get out of your own way.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>.

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.