Rajneesh Quotes

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It's not bad to stay a little immature.

Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Laugh as much as you can.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.