Quotes from Rajneesh

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Jesus was a crackpot.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

Knowledge always liberates.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.