Rajneesh Quotes

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

You know, it's funny, no matter what I do - I mean, you're always going to have negatives and positives.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.