Rajneesh Quotes

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of the five senses is a dramatic act of spiritual responsibility. Neonates are great souls and so I honor their paths. I do the best that I can, but the best that I can do is to change myself. To make myself a citizen like I want others to be.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.