Rajneesh Quotes

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

My religion lies in my composition.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.