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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.- 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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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- 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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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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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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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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To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.- Osho
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It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.- Osho
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.- 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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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.- Osho
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Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.- 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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Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.- Osho
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.- 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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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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When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss.- 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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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.- 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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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- 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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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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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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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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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.- 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 goal, life is the journey.- 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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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- Osho
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Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.- 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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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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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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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.- Osho
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You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.- 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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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.- 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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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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Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.- 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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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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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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Love has to be discovered — it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the river disappears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean — it becomes the ocean.- 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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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.- 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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Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.- 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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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- 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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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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As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty.- Osho
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It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.- 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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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.- 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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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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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.- Osho
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Consciousness plus thinking is Waking, Consciousness minus thinking is Samadhi, Unconsciousness plus thinking is Dreaming, Unconsciousness minus thinking is Sleep.- 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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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.- 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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Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.- 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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.- 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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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- 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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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.- 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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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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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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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.- 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, 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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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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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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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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To fight with the mind is to give it reality, to recognize its power. There is no need to fight. One has just to be a witness. Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.- 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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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .- Osho
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If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.- 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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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.- 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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First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.- 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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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.- 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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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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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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Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.- 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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Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.- Osho
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I have no wish to placate you with false, hollow and worthless words exhorting you to love mankind. The so-called religions have said these things to you for generations. I am here to urge you to love real men, to love your fellow beings - not mankind but the men who live and work around you. Humanity is just a word; mankind is just a label. You cannot find humanity or mankind anywhere. And so humanity is easy to love because the only thing you have to do is mouth a few platitudes.- 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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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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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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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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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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Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.- Osho
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Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.- 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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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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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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Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.- Osho
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Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.- Osho
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I would hate to be respected by the present humanity -it does not have that intelligence, nor has it that heart, nor has it that being.- 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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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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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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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.- Osho
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To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.- 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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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.- 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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A real prayer arises out of gratitude, never out of fear and greed. A real prayer arises out of love for truth.- 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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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- 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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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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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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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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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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Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.- Osho
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Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.- 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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Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.- Osho
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The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.- 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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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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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. I trust in the individual categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual in such a way. So all those things can be removed. Now all that is left to you is a state of meditation which simply means a state of utter silence. Even the word meditation makes it look heavier. It is better to just call it a simple, innocent silence.- 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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Whenever there is no conflict between you and the whole, not even a rumor of conflict, you are healthy. To be whole is to be healthy.- 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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Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.- 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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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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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 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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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.- 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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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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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- Osho
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In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears.- 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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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.- 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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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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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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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- 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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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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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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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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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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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.- 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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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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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.- Osho
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The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.- Osho
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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.- 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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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.- Osho
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Take life as easily as possible. But people don't understand me. I say to them, Life is a mystery. It is not to be solved but to be lived. And somebody has asked me, Osho, when you said that, I heard, Life is a MISERY, not to be solved but to be lived. That is up to you. To me it is a mystery, not to be solved but to be lived, but you can hear it as misery.- Osho
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If you can fine our original man, you have found everything that this existence contains—the entire splendor, all the glory, all the ceremony, all the joy.- 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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Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.- Osho
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If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.- Osho
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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.- Osho
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A religious person is a desireless person.- 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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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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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.- Osho
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When one wants to come to oneself no path is needed because one is already there. Just recognition – and the revolution happen! Just a remembrance!- 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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Do meditation without thinking of any result, enjoy meditating as an end in itself. And then some day the light explodes, the ego disappears.- Osho
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.- 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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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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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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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.- 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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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.- 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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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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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- 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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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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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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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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Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.- 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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Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.- 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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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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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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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.- 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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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.- Osho
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The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown,makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear.- 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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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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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 miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.- Osho
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So when I say, Spread the word, I mean whatever I have been telling you, go on spreading in as many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that the word reaches to every nook and corner of the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death -- that is not power. But the word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring new life to you; it can give you rebirth, resurrection -- that is power.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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Your trust in the total opens all your sensitivities to their extreme. This whole existence becomes a sheer dance, a sheer celebration.- Osho
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God is without purpose. The sky exists without purpose. Flowers bloom without purpose and stars shine without purpose. What happens to poor man that he cannot live without purpose?- 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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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence- Osho
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Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.- 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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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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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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At the center we are one. At the periphery of existence we appear to be separate. And to know the truth of your being is to know the whole.- Osho
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The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.- 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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If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.- 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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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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My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.- Osho
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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.- Osho
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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.- 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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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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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.- Osho
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- Osho
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.- 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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Your absence is the presence of godliness.- 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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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 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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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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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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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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Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.- Osho
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The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.- 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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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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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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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.- 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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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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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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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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Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!- Osho
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Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.- 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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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- 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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A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.- Osho
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Only by knowing oneself does one become capable of knowing the ultimate, because at the very core of your being the ultimate is present.- 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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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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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.- 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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When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.- Osho
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You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.- Osho
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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.- 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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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.- 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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The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.- 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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Life begins where fear ends.- Osho
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.- Osho
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.- 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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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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Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.- 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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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- 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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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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Whenever you create something, you feel enhanced; you reach towards peaks; you get high. All people who are creative are close to religion.- Osho
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This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.- Osho
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So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.- 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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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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On the path nothing more is needed than Patience- 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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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.- Osho
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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.- 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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Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.- Osho
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I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.- 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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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- 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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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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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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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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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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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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When you are utterly present in this moment, when you don't have any past and don't have any future ... when this cuckoo calling, this train passing, this dog barking, is all ... when THIS is all and there is no that, when the word 'here' is your whole reality and there is no 'there', when now contains all time and there is no then ... then you are in the state of samasati.- Osho
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.- Osho
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.- 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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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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- 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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We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.- Osho
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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.- Osho
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- Osho
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Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.- 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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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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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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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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Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.- 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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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- 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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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- Osho
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Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.- 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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If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.- 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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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.- Osho
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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.- Osho
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- 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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The world is a good place because it gives you an opportunity to test your silence, your meditation your watchfulness. Be in the world but don’t be of it.- 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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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 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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Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality'. Totality will give you a different dimension.- 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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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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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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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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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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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- 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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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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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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Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.- Osho
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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.- Osho
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Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.- 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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It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.- 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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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.- 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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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- Osho
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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.- 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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Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.- 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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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.- 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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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.- Osho
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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.- Osho
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Truth is to be lived, not understood.- 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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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.- 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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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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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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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.- 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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To me, every day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nourishing, it is energy-giving, it is vitalizing.- Osho
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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.- 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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Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.- Osho
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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.- Osho
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.- 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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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.- 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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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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Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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It(existence) has given me so much, there is no way to pay anything back; there is no word even to express gratitude. The only way is that my every breath should be used in helping people to reach to the same Everest of consciousness.- 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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Rare is the person who transforms his life into a growth, who transforms his life into a long journey of self-actualization, who becomes what he was meant to be. In the East we have called that man the buddha.- 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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I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.- 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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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.- 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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Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.- Osho
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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.- 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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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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Unless the truth is your own experience, whatever you believe about truth is only a belief. And all beliefs are lies, and all believers are blind.- Osho
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The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- 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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Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.- 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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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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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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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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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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Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.- Osho
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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The real function of the Master is to give you encouragement. Just by his presence, his blissful life, peaceful life, creates a certain milieu in which you can move easily toward dropping your plannings, projects, and allowing existence to happen.- Osho
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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.- 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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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.- 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 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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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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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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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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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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I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.- 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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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.- Osho
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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.- 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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There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.- 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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If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.- Osho
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I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.- Osho
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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.- 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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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.- Osho
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Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.- 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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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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My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.- 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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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- 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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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.- 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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Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.- Osho
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- 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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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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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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No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.- 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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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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Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.- Osho
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To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.- Osho
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A woman is to be loved, not understood.- Osho
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My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.- 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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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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With fear, hate, jealousy-anything whatsoever- don’t create a problem out of it. Accept it, allow it, pass through it, and you will defeat all suffering.- 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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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- 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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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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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 greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.- Osho
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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.- 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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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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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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Unless you find your spontaneity, unless you find your element, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, you cannot be meditative.- Osho
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Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.- 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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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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The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.- 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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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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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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Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.- Osho
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These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle- Osho
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.- 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 herenow… just this moment.- 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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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 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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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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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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If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.- 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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Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.- 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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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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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- Osho
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.- Osho
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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.- 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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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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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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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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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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There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.- Osho
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If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.- 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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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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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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Be – don’t try to become.- Osho
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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.- Osho
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Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.- 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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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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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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An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed.- 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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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, I cannot live spontaneously.- Osho
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Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higer levels.- 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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Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is in love.- Osho
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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!- 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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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.- 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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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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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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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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If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.- 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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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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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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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.- 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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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.- 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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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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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.- 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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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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Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.- 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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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.- 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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There are only ways of being here: one is in bondage, another is in freedom. Watchfulness takes you out of the prison and opens the doors of infinity.- 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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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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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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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.- Osho
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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?- 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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I want every one of my sannyasins to be utterly unique.- Osho
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To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors.- 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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Oneness is the key.- 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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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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When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.- 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 only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.- 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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When you live at the optimum, then you know what life is. And then you know the celebration of it and the benediction of it.- 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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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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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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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- Osho
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Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.- 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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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.- 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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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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Man is always exploited through fear.- 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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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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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- Osho
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Mind always creates duality.- Osho
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- Osho
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.- 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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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.- Osho
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.- 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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Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.- Osho
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.- Osho
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Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.- Osho
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.- Osho
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