Rajneesh Quotes

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

We only keep what we lose.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

No man can lose what he never had.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

You shall leave everything you love.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.