Rajneesh Quotes

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I am a living contradiction.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.