“I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.”

—  Rajneesh

The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
Context: I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.

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