Rajneesh Quotes

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

I'll let you go. If you stay.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total. So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.