Quotes from Rajneesh

I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

I am the rich man's guru.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.