Rajneesh Quotes

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

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

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don't have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.