Rajneesh Quotes

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

If you desire, you are restless.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

Few love what they may have.

People in hell want snowcones.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

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

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.