Rajneesh Quotes

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

I am most scared of being bored

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.