Rajneesh Quotes

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I only remember the future.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.