Rajneesh Quotes

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

No man can lose what he never had.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

The more we have the less we own.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

I want to feel that I own things.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

People like to own things.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'