Rajneesh Quotes

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

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.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.