Rajneesh Quotes

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it. you can control your sexuality, but that is not going to help. You will not be celibate, you will be only more and more sexual. Sex will spread all over your being. It will become part of your unconscious. It will move your dreams, it will become your motivation in dreams, it will become your fantasy. In fact, you will become more sexual than you ever were before. You will think more about it and you will have to repress it again and again.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness

Christian priests refusal to marry is unnatural and destined to lead to fornication.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.