Rajneesh Quotes

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

Free love? As if love is anything but free!

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Love without attachment is light.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is so much better when you're not married.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.