Rajneesh Quotes

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.