Rajneesh Quotes

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Love is the only rational act.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

Love is an affair of credulity.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

Love is hope. Hope is nectar.

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.