Quotes from Rajneesh

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

Love is an infinite sky!

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.

Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.