Rajneesh Quotes

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

Whoever desires is always poor.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

You only want everything you don't have.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I felt incomplete. I was always happy but I felt incomplete and that I needed to be pushing through.

If you desire, you are restless.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

Desire has no history.

We are the total of our longings.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

To want is to have a weakness.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

We are formed by what we desire

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Few love what they may have.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.