Rajneesh Quotes

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It is so beautiful, so wonderful! It is all sorts of things together. It is a great cosmic jokе.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Funny women are honest women.

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.