Rajneesh Quotes

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.