Rajneesh Quotes

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.