Rajneesh Quotes

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty.

You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for a change. After a while, they started complaining, although more secure, they also become more dependent and rule-bound.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.