Rajneesh Quotes

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Thought would destroy their paradise.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.