Rajneesh Quotes

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. When you're dating a man, you should always feel good. ... You shouldn't be in a relationship with somebody who doesn't make you completely happy and make you feel whole.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Only the soul that loves is happy

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything