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I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence- Osho
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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.- Osho
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I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.- Osho
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Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.- Osho
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A person who lives in the present – neither bothering about the past, nor bothering about the future – is fresh, young; he is neither a child nor an old man.- Osho
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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.- Osho
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Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.- Osho
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Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is agelessness.- Osho
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All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.- Osho
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When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.- Osho
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.- Osho
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.- Osho
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Man is always exploited through fear.- Osho
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Don't try to understand life, Live it! Don't try to understand love, Move into love. Then you will know.- Osho
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Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.- Osho
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My Message is very Simple. Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God.- Osho
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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.- Osho
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.- Osho
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Truth can whisper its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is purity.- Osho
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- Osho
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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.- Osho
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If a person remains blissful in ordinary day-to-day life, doing small things but blissfully, then prayer is spread all over his life.- Osho
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- Osho
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One seed can make a whole earth green. One small sparkle of energy in you can fill the whole earth with dance, song, music.- Osho
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.- Osho
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Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center.- Osho
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.- Osho
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Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!- Osho
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You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.- Osho
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Whenever you feel a problem look within your heart. If you are at ease, you are on the right path. Your heart is the criterion.- Osho
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Meditation is something natural, something that is already hidden inside you and is trying to find its way to reach to the open sky, to the sun, to the air.- Osho
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If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.- Osho
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I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.- Osho
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, I cannot live spontaneously.- Osho
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Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.- Osho
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.- Osho
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.- Osho
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.- Osho
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- Osho
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- Osho
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.- Osho
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.- Osho
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I am not a messiah, and I am not a missionary. And I am not here to establish a church or to give a doctrine to the world, a new religion, no. My effort is totally different: a new consciousness not a new religion, a new consciousness not a new doctrine. Enough of doctrines and enough of religions! Man needs a new consciousness. And the only way to bring consciousness is to go on hammering from all the sides so that slowly slowly chunks of your mind go on dropping. The statue of a buddha is hidden in you. Right now you are a rock. If I go on hammering, cutting chunks out of you, slowly slowly the buddha will emerge. It takes time.- Osho
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- Osho
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.- Osho
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Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.- Osho
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Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.- Osho
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You are the temple and the master of the temple. You need not go anywhere. If you need go anywhere it is only inwards, into your own interiority.- Osho
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To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.- Osho
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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.- Osho
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You cannot destroy inner emptiness. It is your very being. You can cover it with things, but sooner or later you will have to encounter it. And it is better if you encounter it sooner.- Osho
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Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.- Osho
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Never ask, Who is my real friend? Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody? That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.- Osho
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!- Osho
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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.- Osho
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.- Osho
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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. This is the way existence wants you to be.- Osho
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation.- Osho
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.- Osho
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Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.- Osho
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.- Osho
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Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.- Osho
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The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven.- Osho
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- Osho
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Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.- Osho
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Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.- Osho
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Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.- Osho
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To be frank with you - which usually I am not - I don't know who I am. Knowledge is not possible here where I am. Only the knower is left, the known has disappeared; only the container is left, the content is no more.- Osho
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Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.- Osho
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When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.- Osho
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.- Osho
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There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.- Osho
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I have called the New Man ZORBA THE BUDDHA. Zorba represents the materialist, objective approach. Buddha represents the subjective, spiritual approach. Divided, both are poor. Neither of them is a full circle. Joined, they become immensely rich. Joined together, they experience the greatest ecstasy that is available to humanity.- Osho
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I do not give you any discipline, any philosophy. I simply help you to bring out your own consciousness into a state of flowering.- Osho
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.- Osho
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- Osho
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Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.- Osho
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We need a world - a new man, a new woman, a new child, who has intelligence. Not to imitate, not to deceive, but to stand on his own with power and integrity. Even if it means that he will be condemned by the whole world, it does not matter. What ultimately matters is that you have your own face.- Osho
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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.- Osho
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Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.- Osho
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I am deliberately inconsistent, contradictory, so that you cannot make any body of knowledge out of me. So if one day you start gathering something, another day I take it away. I don't allow you to gather anything. Sooner or later, you are bound to be awakened to the fact that something totally different is transpiring here. It is not that I am giving you some dogma to be believed in, some philosophy to be lived by, no, not at all. I am utterly destructive, I am taking everything away from you.- Osho
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.- Osho
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.- Osho
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Be – don’t try to become.- Osho
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Harmony is happiness, and harmony is heaven. And harmony happens only when you are in tune with the whole. To be with the whole is to be holy.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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A religious person is a desireless person.- Osho
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You are too much identified with the false, the personality.- Osho
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Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.- Osho
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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.- Osho
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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.- Osho
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Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.- Osho
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.- Osho
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There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you: it is always in tune with your heart and in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.- Osho
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.- Osho
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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- Osho
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My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.- Osho
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.- Osho
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Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.- Osho
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.- Osho
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The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.- Osho
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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.- Osho
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If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.- Osho
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A real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he does not depend on anybody else.- Osho
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Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.- Osho
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I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody's help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you. Left alone ― utterly alone ― you are bound to find your innermost center.- Osho
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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.- Osho
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Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.- Osho
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All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.- Osho
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.- Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.- Osho
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Always off with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation.- Osho
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The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.- Osho
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Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.- Osho
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You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.- Osho
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You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.- Osho
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If you are aware, you cannot be angry, because anger can exist only in a state of unawareness; that is a prerequisite for anger to exist.- Osho
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The ocean is not far away. But your ego is a frozen block - it needs melting. Love melts it, fear makes it more frozen, trust melts it. All that the people who are trying to find themselves have to do, is remain melted and allow the river to move on its own. You should not be the guide. The river needs no guide. Its very nature is to reach to the ocean. It is not an effort, it is its intrinsic quality.- Osho
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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.- Osho
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .- Osho
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My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. Your whole life has to be colored by it.- Osho
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- Osho
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.- Osho
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Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.- Osho
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.- Osho
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.- Osho
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You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life.- Osho
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It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.- Osho
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The mirror mirrors things, but mirroring is not an activity. It is just the nature of the mirror, that whatever comes before it is reflected.- Osho
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Western man is missing the flowering of life because he knows nothing about meditation, and Eastern man is missing because he knows nothing of love.- Osho
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Life is our philosophy. Existence is our philosophy. To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion.- Osho
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he person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.- Osho
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!- Osho
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Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.- Osho
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A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.- Osho
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The lover is an emperor; the creator is an emperor – without invading the whole world. He has invaded the whole universe out of sheer loving creativity.- Osho
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The moment you experience your own being, you have experienced the being of this whole universe because your heartbeat is part of the heartbeat of the universe.- Osho
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The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- Osho
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- Osho
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When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.- Osho
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Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.- Osho
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Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.- Osho
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Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.- Osho
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Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong.- Osho
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Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.- Osho
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It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.- Osho
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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.- Osho
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I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.- Osho
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Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.- Osho
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Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.- Osho
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If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.- Osho
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A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. He is on the Way, he is on Tao; and he IS becoming meditative.- Osho
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The real religious man has to contribute to the world. He has to make it a little more beautiful than he found it when he came into the world.- Osho
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This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These three experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity.- Osho
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A real religious man is one who has no past, who has no autobiography, who is continuously new, each moment slipping with GOD. He does not bother – what has happened, has happened – finished! Put a full stop it, and never look back. Go on...he is always calling you ahead, and ahead. He is always persuading you to move into new territories of being: from lust to love, from love to prayer - and there are higher realms than prayer. And he is constantly on the move. If you follow him, the only way is to be constantly on the move. Be a river.- Osho
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The more empty you become, the more you will be able to receive my vibrations, my heartbeat, my song, the more you will be able to dance in tune with me—and that is the only right way to spread the message. Because the message is not of language; the message is of being, of experience.- Osho
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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- Osho
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You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.- Osho
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I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.- Osho
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When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.- Osho
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- Osho
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.- Osho
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- Osho
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One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.- Osho
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.- Osho
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The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.- Osho
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Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!- Osho
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Remember, meditation is not something that is done by the mind, it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops, meditation happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond the mind.- Osho
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The will to wholeness is inherent in everything, but only in man has it become conscious. Therefore man lives in tension, and only when this longing is fulfilled is his negative state of tension erased.- Osho
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To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.- Osho
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.- Osho
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If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.- Osho
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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.- Osho
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Try to understand that existence consists of polar opposites. If you choose one side, your life will remain only half; and a half-life is a miserable life.- Osho
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.- Osho
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- Osho
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Truth is not somewhere in the future. It is not goal but the source. You are coming from truth. Of you can find the source again you will know what truth in.- Osho
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When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, I am the watcher, I am not sadness.- Osho
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Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.- Osho
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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.- Osho
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.- Osho
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.- Osho
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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.- Osho
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We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.- Osho
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If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.- Osho
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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.- Osho
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- Osho
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As you come to the center of your being you have found your original face. Your original face is the Buddha.- Osho
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To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.- Osho
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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.- Osho
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You are right now at the very source, and you have never left it for a single moment. Just recognize it, just open your eyes and see it!- Osho
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.- Osho
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation by love, not by struggle.- Osho
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The world is a garland of millions of flowers, but running through all those flowers is a thread that keeps it together: that thread is love.- Osho
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Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.- Osho
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Be Yourself - and only then can you be responsible and authentic and real. But ordinarily everyone is just secondhand and borrowed, and that makes everything ugly.- Osho
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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.- Osho
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To see the beauty of the flower you need silence, not analysis; beauty can never be understood through analysis.- Osho
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.- Osho
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Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom.- Osho
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Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen.- Osho
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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.- Osho
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Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.- Osho
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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.- Osho
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I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.- Osho
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Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.- Osho
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Truth is to be lived, not understood.- Osho
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Once you know meditation, you don’t have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path.- Osho
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Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.- Osho
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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- Osho
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Truth can only arise within you. Nobody else gives it to you and with truth comes beauty, followed by good.- Osho
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Oneness is the key.- Osho
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. Into a superman. The superman is needed very much, urgently, because only the superman can prevent this beautiful planet from being destroyed by pygmy politicians, by ugly religions. All these vested interests are going to destroy the most beautiful planet in the universe. You can do only one thing to save it, and that is to become a Buddha and spread your Buddhahood - share it.- Osho
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If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.- Osho
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.- Osho
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My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.- Osho
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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.- Osho
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- Osho
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Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?- Osho
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.- Osho
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The first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.- Osho
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation.- Osho
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Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.- Osho
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Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before.- Osho
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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Witness is the highest growth of consciousness. There is nothing beyond it. To remain a witness, awake or asleep, is the whole process of meditation.- Osho
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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.- Osho
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I want to emphasize the point that if a man can have ninety years of physical age and thirteen years of mental age, the vice versa is also possible, and should be made possible. A thirteen-years-old boy can have the mind and mental age of a ninety years old man. And that will be the day of rejoicing, when your mental age is ahead of your physical age. That is the beginning of a superman, the beginning of the new man, a new humanity.- Osho
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My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.- Osho
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Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.- Osho
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The only quality that buddha has is pure awareness, consciousness, witnessing. Witnessing is a key word for all meditators. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness.- Osho
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You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is.- Osho
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Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone.- Osho
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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.- Osho
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Life is for those who know how to celebrate.- Osho
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Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.- Osho
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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- Osho
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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.- Osho
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The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue.- Osho
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Prayer is meaningless if it is not out of alertness. And a man of alertness need not have any prayer – alertness is enough unto itself.- Osho
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Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence.- Osho
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Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once you attain to the meditative state.- Osho
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.- Osho
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When there is no desire there is no past, no future. When there is no desire you are utterly contented here now. And to be contented here now is joy.- Osho
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Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.- Osho
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Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.- Osho
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- Osho
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Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.- Osho
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The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.- Osho
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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.- Osho
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Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.- Osho
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.- Osho
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The being is not a static thing waiting to be discovered by you. The being has to be created moment to moment. That is the only way to discover it.- Osho
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Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.- Osho
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The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.- Osho
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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.- Osho
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When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.- Osho
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.- Osho
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You create yourself moment to moment. You are mot born as a fixed entity, but only as an infinite. You are born as a seed, not as a tree.- Osho
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Mind always creates duality.- Osho
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Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with “that which is” is the truth.- Osho
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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.- Osho
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I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me.- Osho
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You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.- Osho
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Live the day and live the night too. Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits together and makes it a piece of art.- Osho
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It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.- Osho
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You are rich if you have tasted the nectar of your own consciousness. You are rich if you are capable of sharing your love unconditionally.- Osho
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First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.- Osho
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Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed — and that you are, you already are.- Osho
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Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.- Osho
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When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.- Osho
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Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.- Osho
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.- Osho
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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.- Osho
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We are bringing a new approach in religion. You do not go away from the world, but rather go deeper into it and change it. This is more courageous.- Osho
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Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.- Osho
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One has to live totally. Ones life torch has to burn from both ends – even though it is only for one single moment, but then that single moment is eternity.- Osho
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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.- Osho
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Life is in understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love and joy.- Osho
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When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.- Osho
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- Osho
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Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!- Osho
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That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.- Osho
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.- Osho
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.- Osho
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- Osho
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.- Osho
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If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be religious.- Osho
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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.- Osho
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Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life.- Osho
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Wherever you are, reality is. You are part of reality and you exist only as an organic part to reality. You cannot go away. You cannot separate yourself.- Osho
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Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.- Osho
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Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.- Osho
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Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again.- Osho
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Each moment is an end unto itself. Enjoy It., die into it, disappear into it, and then something miraculous happens: great eternal life descends in you.- Osho
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I want you to be in the very center of existence, of your being. That is the only way to understand this tremendous mystery that surrounds you.- Osho
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Being playful is one of the great secrets of inner transformation. Learn to be playful. If all seriousness disappears from your life, you are religious.- Osho
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Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.- Osho
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.- Osho
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The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.- Osho
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Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.- Osho
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I don't want anybody to cling to me, to be attached to me in any way. My whole effort is to give you total freedom, and methods so that whatever you want, you can create it within yourself. Not even God is needed, nothing is needed ― you are enough unto yourself.- Osho
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To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.- Osho
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Reality has not to be invented, it has to be discovered. It is already there. Hence science discovers, and true religion also discovers.- Osho
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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.- Osho
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Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.- Osho
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God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.- Osho
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Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.- Osho
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.- Osho
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Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it!- Osho
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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- Osho
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.- Osho
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The one you are looking for is you.- Osho
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Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence.- Osho
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To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.- Osho
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My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.- Osho
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A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy. The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'leela'. Leela means god's play.- Osho
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You be simply interested in your happiness, in your bless, and one day you will find godliness has entered in you. It is another name for ultimate bliss.- Osho
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Love and freedom are two sides of the coin. It is one flower. And it can blossom only when both are allowed dignity and respect.- Osho
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Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.- Osho
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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.- Osho
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Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.- Osho
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Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.- Osho
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Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.- Osho
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This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this; 'We come alone into this world, we go alone.' All togetherness is illusory.- Osho
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.- Osho
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Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.- Osho
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Never ask for sympathy. Be happy and love will be flowing towards you. Love is the right coin; sympathy is the wrong coin. It looks like love, it is not love.- Osho
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Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.- Osho
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Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.- Osho
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Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.- Osho
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A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.- Osho
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Meditation is purest blissfulness. As you go deeper, you come across more and more beautiful spaces, more and more luminous spots. They are your treasure.- Osho
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No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.- Osho
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If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-min. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond.- Osho
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There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.- Osho
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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.- Osho
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Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.- Osho
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.- Osho
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I teach a new man, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world.[....] only with the death of the old can the new be born. The cessation of the old is the beginning of the new. My message to humanity is a new man.- Osho
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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.- Osho
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A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.- Osho
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There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.- Osho
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When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.- Osho
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There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.- Osho
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By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.- Osho
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. The choice is yours. You can move from the mind to no-mind; the bridge is witnessing.- Osho
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Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.- Osho
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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.- Osho
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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.- Osho
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My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.- Osho
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Remember one thing: that you should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving.- Osho
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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.- Osho
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Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.- Osho
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- Osho
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The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.- Osho
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Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.- Osho
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I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.- Osho
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I am a natural person. I have no charisma, and I don’t believe in charisma. I don’t believe in methods - even if I use them, I don’t believe in them. I am a natural person, very ordinary. I can be lost in a crowd and you will not be able to find me. I don’t lead you, I accompany you.- Osho
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.- Osho
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Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.- Osho
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss.- Osho
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Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.- Osho
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.- Osho
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If you enter heaven because other forced you to act according to certain precepts, certain commandments, you will regret even in heaven.- Osho
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Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.- Osho
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.- Osho
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Don't ask, Don't knock, Don't demand. Just Relax. if you relax, it comes. if you relax, it is there. if you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. You are your hell and your heaven too.- Osho
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To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help divine to be manifested in some form is creativity.- Osho
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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.- Osho
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Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.- Osho
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Be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you.- Osho
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The only revolution possible is through taking the whole responsibility on yourself: I am the cause of my suffering. Hence I can be the cause of my bliss.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- Osho
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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.- Osho
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.- Osho
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Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.- Osho
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If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.- Osho
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Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.- Osho
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I don’t want you to worship Buddha’s; I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love become it.- Osho
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In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.- Osho
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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.- Osho
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Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.- Osho
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- Osho
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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.- Osho
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Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter.- Osho
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Start enjoying that which you are, and then this very ordinary life suddenly becomes extraordinary. Then these ordinary days have such tremendous poetry.- Osho
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.- Osho
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.- Osho
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All that is great is going to happen to you-- not by your effort, but by your relaxed openness, availability. Just keep your doors open.- Osho
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The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.- Osho
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Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.- Osho
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There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music.- Osho
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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.- Osho
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That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.- Osho
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Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.- Osho
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.- Osho
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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.- Osho
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My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.- Osho
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.- Osho
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One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful. Nothing else is needed just the pulsation of life is enough.- Osho
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation- Osho
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Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.- Osho
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The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.- Osho
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My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.- Osho
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Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.- Osho
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To me, this is religion - enjoying the air, enjoying the sea, enjoying the sand, enjoying the sun—because there is no other god than existence itself. Zorba the Buddha, on the one hand, is the end of the old man—his religions, his politics, his nations, his racial discriminations, and all kinds of stupidities. On the other hand, zorba the Buddha is the beginning of a new man—a man totally free to be himself, allowing his nature to blossom. There is no conflict Zorba and Buddha. The conflict been created by the so-called religions.- Osho
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The new man will live out of meditation, out of consciousness, out of his own inner light. The new man will be an individual.- Osho
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.- Osho
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I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.- Osho
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My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.- Osho
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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- Osho
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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.- Osho
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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.- Osho
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.- Osho
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Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.- Osho
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Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.- Osho
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Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.- Osho
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you cannot be anybody else than yourself. That is authentic religiousness Every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.- Osho
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Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.- Osho
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Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.- Osho
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I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.- Osho
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God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.- Osho
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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- Osho
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Whatsoever you do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.- Osho
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.- Osho
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Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.- Osho
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Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.- Osho
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The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.- Osho
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.- Osho
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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- Osho
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Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.- Osho
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Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.- Osho
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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.- Osho
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Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.- Osho
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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.- Osho
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The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simple.- Osho
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You are not filled with straw, you are filled with your own awareness. You are not filled with furniture, cars, houses, money, and other nonsense. You are just filled with your being, the sheer am-ness, the sheer existence.- Osho
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If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.- Osho
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Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.- Osho
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The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.- Osho
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Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lover, silence is enough language. without saying anything, they go on speaking.- Osho
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- Osho
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- Osho
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Witnessing is the greatest miracle in the world, because it takes you out of the circle of birth and death and gives you wings to fly into the eternal sky.- Osho
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- Osho
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.- Osho
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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?- Osho
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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.- Osho
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My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.- Osho
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I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.- Osho
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A single insight into yourself is more valuable than all your scriptures. A single glimpse of your consciousness and you has entered the real temple.- Osho
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Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.- Osho
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If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.- Osho
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Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the centre, fear always comes from the periphery.- Osho
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Everything borrowed is ugly. Beliefs are borrowed, hence they are ugly. And when you live according to borrowed beliefs you create chaos in the world.- Osho
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The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.- Osho
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Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms, love is a mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new.- Osho
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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.- Osho
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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- Osho
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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.- Osho
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Life begins where fear ends.- Osho
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.- Osho
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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.- Osho
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I don’t give u any discipline, any morality. I simple give u a clarity of vision. Out of that clarity whatsoever comes is good, is divine, and is moral.- Osho
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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.- Osho
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All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.- Osho
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.- Osho
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Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key.- Osho
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.- Osho
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If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.- Osho
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Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.- Osho
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- Osho
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Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.- Osho
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A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.- Osho
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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.- Osho
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Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.- Osho
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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.- Osho
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Every man has the potential to become enlightened. If he does not become, he is responsible — nobody else is responsible for it.- Osho
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If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.- Osho
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Every man, every woman is born with a bird in the heart. The heart has wings, but the heart can open its wings only in the sky if silence.- Osho
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.- Osho
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There is only one thing that can make you an emperor and that is your own being. Just find it.- Osho
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I have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.- Osho
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- Osho
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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.- Osho
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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.- Osho
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Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.- Osho
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I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.- Osho
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Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.- Osho
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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.- Osho
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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.- Osho
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.- Osho
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A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.- Osho
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Never speak of me in the past tense. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.- Osho
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The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.- Osho
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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.- Osho
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I am not doing any serious work. I am not doing work at all; it is my joy to share with you. Now, what you do with it is your problem, not mine.- Osho
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Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.- Osho
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A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.- Osho
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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.- Osho
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Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.- Osho
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A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response.- Osho
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When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.- Osho
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.- Osho
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.- Osho
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It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.- Osho
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Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.- Osho
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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.- Osho
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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To live a life of truth, ever if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies.- Osho
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When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration.- Osho
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Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.- Osho
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.- Osho
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A New Man who will not hate life, as in the past it has done; a new man who will love life; a new man who will not be negative in any way, but will be affirmative; a new man who will not desire life after death, but will live moment to moment in sheer joy—who will think of this life as a gift and not as a punishment; who will not be antagonistic to the body, who will respect the body as the temple of the soul; who will love, and who will not be afraid of love; who will move in all kinds of relationships and yet be able to remain himself.- Osho
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Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.- Osho
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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.- Osho
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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.- Osho
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- Osho
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The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.- Osho
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If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness.- Osho
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.- Osho
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I am not a psychoanalyst. I am not here to treat your minds and cure them. I am here to bring you out of your minds - healthy, unhealthy, neurotic, non-neurotic, it doesn't matter. I don't take any note of your mind, what kind of mind you have. Any kind of mind...you have to be taken out of it! So I don't go into the details, I simply start hammering!- Osho
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First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin.- Osho
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Dancing is not just a movement. When a movement becomes ecstatic then it is dance. When the movement is so total that there is no ego, then it is a dance.- Osho
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My whole life has been devoted to only one single program: how to bring love and meditation together - because only through that meeting a new humanity is possible. And only in the meeting of love and meditation, the duality of man and woman - the inequality of man and woman - disappears.- Osho
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These are the only two real emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.- Osho
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We come alone into this world, we go alone.- Osho
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The ego is the cancer of the inner, the cancer of the soul. And the only remedy - the only remedy I say - is meditation.- Osho
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- Osho
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Remember it is a very fundamental law. You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you need. Somehow the universe goes on fulfilling your needs; you may understand, you may not understand.- Osho
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Always remember that to be happy is to be religious; to be happy is to be virtuous; to be celebrating is to be prayerful.- Osho
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Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.- Osho
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Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.- Osho
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.- Osho
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Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.- Osho
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.- Osho
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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.- Osho
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Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.- Osho
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.- Osho
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.- Osho
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I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life.- Osho
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If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.- Osho
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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators.- Osho
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To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.- Osho
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If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.- Osho
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Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.- Osho
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Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.- Osho
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I am not a messiah and I am not a prophet. I am only a friend, and a friend cannot do what you are asking me to do. What commandments can I give you? No, none. I cannot tell you what to do and what not to do.- Osho
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Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.- Osho
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It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.- Osho
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Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.- Osho
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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- Osho
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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.- Osho
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.- Osho
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Your absence is the presence of godliness.- Osho
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My whole effort is to make your morality spontaneous. You should be conscious and alert, and respond to every situation with absolute consciousness. Then whatever you do is right. It is not a question of actions being right or wrong, it is a question of consciousness - whether you are doing it consciously or unconsciously like a robot.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- Osho
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To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!- Osho
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.- Osho
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It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.- Osho
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I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness- Osho
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A moment of truth is more valuable than a hundred years of life, because a moment of truth makes you part of eternity.- Osho
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To move on the path of meditation is to move on the path of life ... life's joys, life's songs, life's laughter. And take everything easy. Easy is right.- Osho
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Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.- Osho
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Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.- Osho
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Trust is the highest form of the same energy as doubt. Doubt is the lowest rung of the ladder, and trust is the highest rung of the same ladder. Use doubt, use it joyfully- Osho
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If you can really see a beautiful rose of a beautiful sunset with your totality there is no need of any other discipline to become a Buddha.- Osho
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Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.- Osho
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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.- Osho
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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.- Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.- Osho
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That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better. Why not just simply be? Why unnecessarily hurry here and there? You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.- Osho
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you needs inner light, a light which has its source in your very being, a light which cannot be extinguished even by death, a light which is eternal.- Osho
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The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.- Osho
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.- Osho
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