Rajneesh Quotes

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and happy.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Most people would rather give than get affection.