Rajneesh Quotes

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?