Rajneesh Quotes

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.

Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.