Rajneesh Quotes

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don't want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us