Rajneesh Quotes

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.