Rajneesh Quotes About Love
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When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
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When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.
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Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
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Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.
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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
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Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is.
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Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.
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It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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Peace follows love energy like a shadow.
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Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
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Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.
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Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.
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The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.
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Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
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In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
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If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
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I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.
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Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
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When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.
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No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.
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It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it.
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