Rajneesh Quotes

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I learned not to care what other people think.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

You don't need someone to complete you.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.