Rajneesh Quotes

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

I don't want anything bad to happen to me.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.

We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world, inspiration can flow.

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

I never think that walls can protect you.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.