Rajneesh Quotes

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

In relationships, you want to be secure but not know what's coming next. Everyone has to have secrets, but if I'm asked a question, I'll answer honestly.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

It's kind of scary making a faith-based film.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.