Rajneesh Quotes

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I have faced up to what I am.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.