Rajneesh Quotes

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.