Rajneesh Quotes

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

You don't have to be naked to look naked. You just have to think naked.