Rajneesh Quotes

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I am totally unattached to material items.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Be satisfied with needs instead of wants.

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

True affluence is to not need anything.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.