Rajneesh Quotes

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.