Rajneesh Quotes

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

You get to decide what to worship.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

Every person has the freedom to choose to give their heart and give their life to God or not. You can't force someone to love God - or to love anyone.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.