Rajneesh Quotes

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

My material life is simple.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

I live a very simple life.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

Be satisfied with needs instead of wants.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

Bread for today is bread enough.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

I live a pretty simple life.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.