Quotes from Rajneesh

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.

I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus.

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.

And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."