Rajneesh Quotes

Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted. Addiction is the problem. Then it is like a disease. You cannot love anybody except your child - this is addiction. Then you will be in misery. Your child can die; then there is no possibility for your love to flow. Even if your child is not going to die, he will grow. And the more he grows, the more he will become independent. And then there will be pain. Every mother suffers, every father suffers.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I lived and languished.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Living, it's awful for me.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.