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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
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
- Osho
Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.
- Osho
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
- Osho
Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.
- Osho
Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.
- Osho
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
When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.
- Osho
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
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
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.
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Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
- Osho
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
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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.
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It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
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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.
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If you are clear and clean in the mind, you will be able to find solutions for every problem that arises in your life.
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
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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.
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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is always exploited through fear.
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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
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
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Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.
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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.
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Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.
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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.
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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not giving you another dream, remember. You hanker for it, you would like me to give you another dream, but I am not going to give you another dream. That's why to be with me is difficult and arduous - because I am insisting that you wake up. Enough is enough. You have dreamed a lot; since eternity you have been dreaming. You have just been changing dreams. When you get fed up with one dream, you start changing it; you dream another dream. My whole effort is to shake you, to shock you - to wake you.
- Osho
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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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.
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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
If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.
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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
The still point… There is a point within you where nothing ever moves – no movement from or to, no stirring, no sound created by any instrument. Nobody is there, just stillness, but that stillness is the dance and that stillness is the music.
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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
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.
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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.
- Osho
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.
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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.
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Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.
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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.
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Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.
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The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.
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Truth can only arise within you. Nobody else gives it to you and with truth comes beauty, followed by good.
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If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
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I am deliberately inconsistent, contradictory, so that you cannot make any body of knowledge out of me. So if one day you start gathering something, another day I take it away. I don't allow you to gather anything. Sooner or later, you are bound to be awakened to the fact that something totally different is transpiring here. It is not that I am giving you some dogma to be believed in, some philosophy to be lived by, no, not at all. I am utterly destructive, I am taking everything away from you.
- Osho
Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.
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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
- Osho
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.
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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.
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You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.
- Osho
he person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
- Osho
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.
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Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.
- Osho
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.
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?
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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
- Osho
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
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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.
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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.
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Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.
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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
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
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.
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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.
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Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
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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.
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
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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.
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My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.
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Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.
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Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.
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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.
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you are a parent you will need this much courage-not to interfere. Open doors of unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.
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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.
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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.
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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.
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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.
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My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.
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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.
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
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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.
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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.
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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.
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Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.
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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.
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There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you: it is always in tune with your heart and in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.
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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.
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Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.
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Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.
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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.
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. The choice is yours. You can move from the mind to no-mind; the bridge is witnessing.
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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.
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Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.
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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.
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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.
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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Your absence is the presence of godliness.
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Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
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I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.
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Remember it is a very fundamental law. You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you need. Somehow the universe goes on fulfilling your needs; you may understand, you may not understand.
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The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.
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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.
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We are not interested in going to paradise; We are interested in making the paradise come here.
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Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
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It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.
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Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with “that which is” is the truth.
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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.
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Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
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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.
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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.
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My function is very different from the function of Gautam Buddha. His function is only a small part of my philosophy. I want individuals to become enlightened, but I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people. They may not become enlightened, but at least become conscious enough so that nations disappear, religions disappear, races disappear, and we can live as one humanity, as one earth.
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
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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.
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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.
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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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.
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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.
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
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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!
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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.
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If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.
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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….
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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.
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Never speak of me in the past tense. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
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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.
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation.
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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.
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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.
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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.
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Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.
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Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.
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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.
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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
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Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.
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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.
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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.
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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
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Oneness is the key.
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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.
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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
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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.
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
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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
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
Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence.
- Osho
If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
- Osho
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
- Osho
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
- Osho
Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.
- Osho
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
- Osho
I do not give you any discipline, any philosophy. I simply help you to bring out your own consciousness into a state of flowering.
- Osho
Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.
- Osho
Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.
- Osho
Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.
- Osho
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
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
You are too much identified with the false, the personality.
- Osho
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
Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
- Osho
When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
- Osho
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.
- Osho
A New Man who will not hate life, as in the past it has done; a new man who will love life; a new man who will not be negative in any way, but will be affirmative; a new man who will not desire life after death, but will live moment to moment in sheer joy—who will think of this life as a gift and not as a punishment; who will not be antagonistic to the body, who will respect the body as the temple of the soul; who will love, and who will not be afraid of love; who will move in all kinds of relationships and yet be able to remain himself.
- Osho
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
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
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
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
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
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
- Osho
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
- Osho
Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
- Osho
You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
- Osho
Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.
- Osho
You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
- Osho
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
Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
- Osho
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
Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.
- Osho
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
When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.
- Osho
The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.
- Osho
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
- Osho
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
In Jainism forgiving carries great value, which I need to follow as it helps me to learn art of living, & I sincerely request you to forgive me if any of my.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.
- Osho
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.
- Osho
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
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
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
- Osho
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
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
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
Power over others is ugly. It is inhuman, because to have power over somebody means to reduce the person to a thing. He becomes your possession.
- Osho
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
- Osho
If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
- Osho
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
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
Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
- Osho
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
- Osho
Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being - where you already are.
- Osho
Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
- Osho
Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
- Osho
Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.
- Osho
A real prayer arises out of gratitude, never out of fear and greed. A real prayer arises out of love for truth.
- Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
- Osho
Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.
- Osho
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
- Osho
Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.
- Osho
If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.
- Osho
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.
- Osho
I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness
- Osho
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
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
- Osho
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
- Osho
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
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
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
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
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
The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.
- Osho
To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
- Osho
Man has to create himself. He is not ready- made, he is no given. And the creation has to be a self- creation – nobody else can make you.
- Osho
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
- Osho
The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.
- Osho
Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
- Osho
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
- Osho
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
I am not here to make you a sheep. You have been a sheep for too long already. I am here to make a man out of you. It is going to be arduous, but you have to start becoming responsible for your own life. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing, because then there is no point in wasting time in postponing, in waiting. Nobody is coming to help you. All waiting is futile, all waiting is sheer wastage.
- Osho
When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
- Osho
Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.
- Osho
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
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
- Osho
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
Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.
- Osho
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
Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.
- Osho
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
I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
- Osho
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
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
Try to understand that existence consists of polar opposites. If you choose one side, your life will remain only half; and a half-life is a miserable life.
- Osho
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
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
- Osho
To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
- Osho
A moment of truth is more valuable than a hundred years of life, because a moment of truth makes you part of eternity.
- Osho
The poison can become medicinal - you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous - if you dint know how to use it.
- Osho
Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.
- Osho
Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.
- Osho
One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
- Osho
Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
- Osho
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
The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue.
- Osho
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
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
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
Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.
- Osho
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
- Osho
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
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
- Osho
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
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
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
- Osho
I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.
- Osho
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
- Osho
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
- Osho
The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.
- Osho
If you are really in love, you are no more the same as your were before. Something has love. You are no more the same as you were before. Something has disappeared; you are reborn. Love is a rebirth.
- Osho
When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.
- Osho
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
- Osho
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
It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.
- Osho
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
- Osho
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
A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
- Osho
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
Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.
- Osho
Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.
- Osho
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
- Osho
When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration.
- Osho
I have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.
- Osho
All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
- Osho
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
My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.
- Osho
Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.
- Osho
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
My whole life has been devoted to only one single program: how to bring love and meditation together - because only through that meeting a new humanity is possible. And only in the meeting of love and meditation, the duality of man and woman - the inequality of man and woman - disappears.
- Osho
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
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
I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.
- Osho
First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.
- Osho
Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.
- Osho
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
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
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
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
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
- Osho
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
- Osho
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
Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.
- Osho
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
- Osho
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
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
Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
- Osho
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
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
- Osho
When you become an absolute pool of silence, an aura of grace arises around you and follows you like your shadow; that is the shadow of your soul.
- Osho
If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.
- Osho
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
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
- Osho
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
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
- Osho
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
Life begins where fear ends.
- Osho
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
Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.
- Osho
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
Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.
- Osho
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
If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
- Osho
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, I am the watcher, I am not sadness.
- Osho
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
- Osho
Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.
- Osho
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
- Osho
Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.
- Osho
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
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
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.
- Osho
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
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
We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.
- Osho
A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.
- Osho
Mind always creates duality.
- Osho
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
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
- Osho
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
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
Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
- Osho
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.
- Osho
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
Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
- Osho
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
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
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.
- Osho
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
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
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
- Osho
Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.
- Osho
Be herenow… just this moment.
- Osho
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
My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.
- Osho
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
Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.
- Osho
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
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
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
The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.
- Osho
Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
- Osho
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
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
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
- Osho
I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.
- Osho
The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
- Osho
Trust is the highest form of the same energy as doubt. Doubt is the lowest rung of the ladder, and trust is the highest rung of the same ladder. Use doubt, use it joyfully
- Osho
Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation
- Osho
Celebration is the very nature of existence.
- Osho
I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
- Osho
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
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
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
A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. He is on the Way, he is on Tao; and he IS becoming meditative.
- Osho
If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
- Osho
God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
- Osho
Only idiots are not controversial.
- Osho
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
- Osho
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
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
Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.
- Osho
Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.
- Osho
Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
- Osho
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
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
- Osho
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
- Osho
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Osho
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
- Osho
The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
- Osho
I want to emphasize the point that if a man can have ninety years of physical age and thirteen years of mental age, the vice versa is also possible, and should be made possible. A thirteen-years-old boy can have the mind and mental age of a ninety years old man. And that will be the day of rejoicing, when your mental age is ahead of your physical age. That is the beginning of a superman, the beginning of the new man, a new humanity.
- Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- Osho
The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.
- Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence
- Osho
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
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
First face your own problem an counter then first try to transform your being, only a transformed person can process of transformation in trigger others.
- Osho
The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven.
- Osho
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
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
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
- Osho
It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.
- Osho
When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.
- Osho
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
We are bringing a new approach in religion. You do not go away from the world, but rather go deeper into it and change it. This is more courageous.
- Osho
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
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
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
- Osho
Authentic religion does not need any god, does not need any priest, and does not need any prayer. All that it need is an exploration of your inner world.
- Osho
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.
- Osho
Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.
- Osho
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
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
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
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
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
Through meditation ultimately one finds the being. And the moment you have found the being there is nothing more to be found – you have come home.
- Osho
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
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
Hate can very easily turn into love, just as love can turn into hate. They are two sides of the same coin.
- Osho
Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.
- Osho
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
- Osho
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
Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.
- Osho
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
- Osho
Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.
- Osho
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
- Osho
Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.
- Osho
Reality has not to be invented, it has to be discovered. It is already there. Hence science discovers, and true religion also discovers.
- Osho
Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.
- Osho
Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.
- Osho
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
- Osho
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
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
To see the beauty of the flower you need silence, not analysis; beauty can never be understood through analysis.
- Osho
Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.
- Osho
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
- Osho
Friendliness is one of the most significant qualities for the seeker to develop; it is really sweet. It makes your whole life full of sweet music.
- Osho
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
Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.
- Osho
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
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
- Osho
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- Osho
Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
- Osho
To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.
- Osho
Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.
- Osho
Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.
- Osho
The being is not a static thing waiting to be discovered by you. The being has to be created moment to moment. That is the only way to discover it.
- Osho
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
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
- Osho
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
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
- Osho
If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.
- Osho
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
- Osho
My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.
- Osho
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
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
- Osho
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
Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.
- Osho
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
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
- Osho
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
You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
- Osho
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
Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.
- Osho
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
- Osho
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
- Osho
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
The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
- Osho
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
- Osho
Why limit yourself to small things! When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic!
- Osho
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
- Osho
This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.
- Osho
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
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
- Osho
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
- Osho
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
Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
- Osho
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
If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
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
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
- Osho
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
- Osho
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.
- Osho
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
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
- Osho
The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.
- Osho
Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.
- Osho
Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
- Osho
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
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
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
The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
- Osho
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
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
Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.
- Osho
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.
- Osho
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
You are not filled with straw, you are filled with your own awareness. You are not filled with furniture, cars, houses, money, and other nonsense. You are just filled with your being, the sheer am-ness, the sheer existence.
- Osho
Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.
- Osho
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
why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. it is so absurd. it is so ridiculous. it is so beautiful, so wonderful! it is all sorts of things together. it is a great cosmic joke. Laughter is the real religion. Everthing else is just metaphysics.
- Osho
Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
- Osho
Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
- Osho
A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality.
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.
- Osho
To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
- Osho
My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
- Osho
Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.
- Osho
Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
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
Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.
- Osho
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
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
- Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
- Osho
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
you can drop your miseries only when some inner meaning starts flowering in you. Miseries can be dropped only when meditation starts blooming in you.
- Osho
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
- Osho
Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.
- Osho
All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.
- Osho
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
Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
- Osho
You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.
- Osho
All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.
- Osho
My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.
- Osho
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
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
Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
- Osho
Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.
- Osho
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.
- Osho
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
Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.
- Osho
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- Osho
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
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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Choose courage - always choose courage.

Question 1 Listening to you in the discourse, it is the pauses, the gaps, between two sentences, two words, that roll in my ears like thunder, tearing me open and tearing me apart. I am being taken to a space beyond tears or laughter by your...

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Osho Quotes on Courage

Osho Quotes on Courage "The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.“ - Osho, "Tao - The Three Treasures, Vol 3, #2“ “Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that...

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To exploit people is wrong, to be exploited is as much wrong – both are wrong.

[A visitor had previously written to Osho, confessing he was a con-man and hustler. He had asked Osho to help him put his abilities to positive ends.] Hello,… come here. So you have come! Very good. This time don’t try to escape. Your whole ...

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Freedom means that each person has the freedom to be what he wishes to be

If a person wants to know truth, he does not set out by himself to discover it; he goes and falls at the feet of a guru saying, "You are my everything. Give me the knowledge of truth. How can I, a sinner, do anything?" He little knows that a...

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Courage is the greatest religious quality, Everything else is secondary.

The ultimate void is another name for god. The word 'god' has become ugly. The priests have exploited the word so much. That it has lost all beauty. The ultimate void simply means That from which everything arises And into which everything d...

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Does God exist? how can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists?

Question 1 : Does God exist? how can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists? God is a mythical word, a mumbo-jumbo word that is the invention of the priesthood. Actually, to ask whether God exists is absurd. For thos...

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Osho on Osho Talks

Osho on Osho Talks "I have been a teacher of philosophy for nine years, and finding that there was nothing except words, I entered into the world of mysticism. There I have found what was missing in all the philosophies, in all the logical t...

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My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Question 1 Osho, Please explain what you mean by freedom. when i talk about freedom, i mean freedom from something or freedom to do something; it implies more freedom of choice. but my impression is that choiceless awareness precedes the fre...

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Love can exist only in total freedom.

It is attachment that kills love, because it is attachment that destroys freedom, and love cannot exist in a state of bondage. Love can exist only in total freedom. Freedom is also part of the spiritual qualities; you cannot separate them. B...

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Everybody feels that others are responsible for his misery.

Question 2 Osho, Why do i always feel so miserable? have i ever really let you in? the moment i sit in front of you, all is gone. what is happening? can't you take it all away? The answer is in your question. You don't want to take responsib...

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No Need to Reconcile

Question 3: I feel very joyous after your morning talk and Sufi dancing, but I cannot reconcile it with the misery of the people I see when I step out of the ashram. What to do? It is there, the misery is there. But there is no need to recon...

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The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery. He does not want t...

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Meditation opens doors to inner richness.

(To Ned, a therapist from America, Osho explained the seemingly paradoxical situation that probably all of us who live here have observed -- that while the poor of India are perhaps the most impoverished people of the world, it doesn't seem ...

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Gautama the Buddha's whole religion can be reduced to a single word. That word is freedom.

Gautama the Buddha's whole religion can be reduced to a single word. That word is freedom. That is his essential message, his very fragrance. Nobody else has raised freedom so high. It is the ultimate value in Buddha's vision, the SUMMUM BON...

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To be totally free one needs to be totally aware

To be totally free one needs to be totally aware, because our bondage is rooted in our unconsciousness; it does not come from the outside. Nobody can make you unfree. You can be destroyed but your freedom cannot be taken away... unless you g...

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What is the aim of life?

Life's aim is life itself Question 1: Osho, What is the aim of life? Anwar Aman, life has no aim other than itself, because life is another name for God himself. Everything else in the world can have an aim, can be a means to an end, but at ...

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Why should one search for god?

Question 4 Why should one search for god? is not life enough? LIFE IS GOD! GOD IS LIFE! those two words are synonymous, synonyms. Forget about God! Search for life -- it is the same search. Using the word 'God' does not change anything. But ...

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Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God

While you are here with me, be here with me; be totally here with me so that you can learn a new mode of movement, so that you can move into eternity, not in time. Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is G...

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A sannyasin is one who has known the world as frustrating

Whatever you have desired — fulfilled, unfulfilled, it makes no difference — the moment the desire has come into your mind, into your heart, you have created ripples, waves. They will go on. This wheel, this sansar, is constituted of all the...

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Guilt is imposed by others; shame is your own experience

But why does the priest go on creating guilt in man? There is a secret behind it. If you can make humanity feel guilty you remain powerful. The guilty person is always ready to serve those who are powerful. He is always ready to serve those ...

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on the difference between freedom for and freedom from

Question 2: Osho, There is a story of a disciple who comes to see his master and asks him whether man is free. the master tells his disciple to stand up and to lift one of his feet off the ground. the disciple, standing on one leg - and the ...

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Sin does not mean sin, it simply means missing the target. We have gone astray

Question : I kept wondering what you meant about our having to go astray — wondering what i would have to do, and then suddenly realised, we are astray.’ True. A great insight has happened to you. Man is astray. The sin is not to be committe...

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You are not guilty. You may be ignorant

The moment you are in a total standstill you have reached. Then there is no more. And this can be done any moment. If you understand, this can happen this very moment. God is life, God is existence, God is the case. But there are problems; t...

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All politicians are chimpanzees - without exception.

Question 5 Beloved Osho, The chimpanzee who made reagan famous as an actor was called bonzo. reagan was his sidekick. there is a rumor that it is actually bonzo who is in the white house, and reagan is skulking up a tree in beverly hills. be...

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Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

I would like you to remember: Live, and try to know what life is. Don't be bothered about death, heaven and hell, and this goddammed God. You simply remain with the life that is dancing in you, breathing in you, alive in you. You have to com...

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A buddhafield facilitates many processes which can happen without the buddhafield, but it would take long long, arduous effort.

Question 4: Osho, If buddha did not really need to leave his wife and children in order to attain enlightenment, then can enlightenment happen anywhere? why do i feel that i need to be in your buddhafield? Deva Surati, Buddha also realized i...

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To be initiated into sannyas means to be initiated into truth.

False things are always cheap. You can always purchase a mask for your face, a beautiful mask. To transform your face into a beautiful face is an arduous journey. It needs great transformation in your being because your eyes will show that w...

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I am not to make anything out of you

Question 5 : I can think of nothing that I wish more clearly than to come closer to your inner temple. Is this possible while I am still doing my own thing? Or is it a prerequisite to drop all activities and interests not connected with you ...

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Master and Disciple

The greatest art in the world is to be a disciple. It cannot be compared to anything. It is unique and incomparable. Nothing like it exists in any other relationship, nothing like it can exist. To be a disciple, to be with a master, is to mo...

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Nobody really wants to be free, because freedom brings responsibility

Everybody wants freedom as far as talking is concerned, but nobody really is free and nobody really wants to be free, because freedom brings responsibility. It does not come alone. And to be dependent is simple: the responsibility is not on ...

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This fragrance is an experience of a totally new atmosphere that does not exist in the outside world.

Question 3: Osho, Passing through the gate of this mandir for the first time in eight years, i felt a kind of fragrance which has stayed with me ever since. is it possible to take this fragrance with me when i leave? Oh, beloved master, it i...

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There are three kinds of freedom.

There are three kinds of freedom. Question 1 Osho, you talked yesterday of children asserting their egos and rebelling against their parents, of being able to say no! and thus creating a spine, an individuality, a freedom. Osho, do we now co...

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Guilt creates pathology. Drop your guilt. And don’t bother about the causes

Question : I always feel guilty even though there is no apparent cause. why? Just good luck, sir. You must have been brought up by very good parents, hence the guilt. You must have had the opportunity of being close to religious parents, chu...

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We do not know that without courage there is no religion

[Note: This is the final edit of the Hindi translation of Antar Yatra, later published as part of Sadhana Path. This is for reference use only, pending publication.] My Beloved Ones, This afternoon I would like to discuss a few more points r...

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We have gone astray, from the very beginning man is astray

Question : I kept wondering what you meant about our having to go astray — wondering what i would have to do, and then suddenly realised, we are astray.’ True. A great insight has happened to you. Man is astray. The sin is not to be committe...

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A sannyasin has to reflect God. He has just to be a mirror

We have chosen the colour of the morning for sannyas to symbolize that each sannyasin is nothing but the birth of a new sun. This is only the beginning of a long long journey. If you allow, then much can happen, but it all depends on you, on...

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Freedom opens the door of responsibility.

Question 3: Osho, You say that fear and freedom, like ambition and love, cannot co-exist. but it is existence that brings into being fear and love of freedom, together. please comment. It is true that it is existence itself which brings fear...

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I am a sinner. can i also become your sannyasin?

Question : Osho, i am a sinner. can i also become your sannyasin? Govind, yes, absolutely yes! In fact, only a sinner can become a sannyasin. Those who think themselves saints, holier-than-thou, they are the closed people, they are the dead ...

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Behave As if You Are the First Here

My whole vision is of a human being, totally alive, intensely alive, enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with grace, with gratitude towards existence. And that's what loving yourself means. It means that you have t...

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A Vision of Freedom in a Culture of Lies

A Vision of Freedom in a Culture of Lies “The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. It is not a question of g...

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Agreeing with someone else is a psychological slavery.

Question 2 Osho, I'm confused. there is fear and wanting in me. there are moments of silence and moments of suppressing my body, my feelings. why don't i let go totally? am i still greedy? is the falling back into old patterns an expression ...

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The question-answer sessions are concerned with you, your growth, your progress

Question 2: Osho, Whilst you were speaking on Kahlil Gibran and Zarathustra, your words seemed to penetrate without my interpretation directly to the center of my being. I experienced an attunement, a communion happening as nectar that was f...

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Responsibility is always the very first step of freedom.

Question 1: Osho, As i see it, the situation is as follows: you are, and we are not, or to be more precise, you aren't, and we still are. It seems that the master-disciple relationship is really a kindness on your part to describe, in flatte...

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God is the creator, they were just vehicles he used

Question 7 : An artist is an artist in so far as he creates. is not creating doing? and are not most forms of art the result of doing, of achieving, of not being? if an artist was just being he would have no art. is a world without art what ...

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Questioning is useless if there is no space to receive

Before you ask something, I must tell you that there are two types of questioning. One type of questioning comes not because you do not know, but because you know something. It comes out of your so-called knowledge. You have the answer alrea...

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What is your Message?

Question : Osho, What is your Message? Pritam, 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. Friedrich Nietzsche says God is dead. T...

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Is it true that one has to go through hell?

Question : Osho, Is it true that one has to go through hell? You need not go through hell because you are already there. Where else will you find hell? This is your ordinary state — hell. Don’t think that hell is somewhere deep down below th...

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Live the material in a spiritual way; bring the quality of the spirit to matter

Question : You confused me very much by saying that the samsara is the nirvana. Now, from where to begin? There is no need to begin. I am not sending you on a journey. Not even the first step is needed. Take the step, and you have moved in t...

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What is your Message?

Question : Osho, What is your Message? Pritam, 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. Friedrich Nietzsche says God is dead. T...

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Death is a social phenomenon, not individual. No individual dies

For religion, death is the basic problem - not life, because life IS. Life is not a problem; you have it, you are it. But death is a problem. Death is not here and yet is here. Death has not occurred to you, yet it has occurred all around; i...

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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another

No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other. I may follow another and roam the whole earth, yet I cannot reach within. And if I want to reach within I will have to cease wandering. To follow alw...

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The three basic dimensions of freedom for the individual

Question 3 Osho, Does the being, or self, in the person die with the death of the person; or does it live beyond death in another body? Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon. The first is the physical dimension: you can be enslaved physi...

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We are born only as opportunities, then everything depends on us

Love is the highest form of poetry — and by poetry I don’t mean anything literal. To me poetry is far more than just composing poems. Poems can be composed even by someone who has no poetic life, who has no poetic grace. He can compose poems...

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A real master always makes you feel good about yourself, not guilty; respectful towards yourself

DO NOT CARRY WITH YOU YOUR MISTAKES. DO NOT CARRY YOUR CARES. Buddha says: Go alone, just remember two things. Don't carry your mistakes - that means, don't carry your past. There is no need even to repent about the past. Your religious peop...

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Awareness brings freedom. In freedom there is no need for control

Awareness is the key. If you become aware, everything follows. Don't try to become anything -- patient, loving, non-violent, peaceful. Don't try. If you try, you will force yourself and you will become a hypocrite. That's how the whole relig...

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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield

Question 1 Osho, I have experienced the fragrance and the nectar of the buddhafield while i have been here. how do we keep this with us whilst we are away, especially in the midst of anti-buddhafield forces? Jagdeesh Bharti, to experience th...

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Spontaneity means: you don’t interfere, you are in a let-go

FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to distract it, not to take it in some other direction where it was not going on its own. To surre...

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Just be responsible to yourself.

Question : Why are we afraid, and sometimes even resent taking responsibility for ourselves, and we expect either you or the commune to take the responsibility? It is because from your very childhood you have been taught not to be responsibl...

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My sannyasins are not my followers.

Daeniela literally means god is my judge. It is a declaration of trust in the ultimate, it is a declaration that 'I am not going to compromise for anything less than the ultimate -- not with the society, not with the church, not with the sta...

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A sannyasin is a person who lives more and more in alertness

Each sannyasin will be a totally unique person. I am not interested in the society. I am not interested in the collectivity. My interest is absolutely in individuals — in you! And meditation can succeed where mind has failed, because meditat...

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The mystic can understand only one-dimensionally; the master has a wider view

This anecdote is very strange. Its strangeness is that it is not necessary that a man of Zen will be able to understand another man of Zen. Of course, a master will be able to understand all kinds of Zen people, but a master is multidimensio...

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Meditation needs not followers but friends.

Friendship exists between two persons; it is relationship. Friendliness is only a quality; it need not depend on any relationship. It is just the way you live your lire -- it is a friendly life. You are friendly to everything, to the whole e...

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He (enlightened man) does not answer your questions; he answers you

Always remember it: whenever you come to an enlightened man, whatsoever you say is not the point. He talks out of his heart. In fact, he does not answer your questions; he answers you, your deepest need, about which you yourself are not awar...

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Courage is the most important religious quality

The goal is not far away. Sometimes it can be reached in a single step, in a single leap. All that is needed is courage. It is out of fear that people fall back into the old rut. If I can teach you courage, I have taught you all. If I can he...

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Freedom from is not true freedom : Three kind of freedom

Question 7 Osho, We must be free. yet where does freedom end and selfishness begin? Freedom has to be understood. It is a very delicate matter, a very subtle matter, one of the most profound, because freedom is equivalent to God. That's why ...

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I am an incurable dreamer.

Question 1: Osho, What is your vision of a world academy of sciences for creativity? The world has come so close to a point of crisis that the so-called thinkers of the world simply avoid talking about the coming suicide. It is not far away;...

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What is a good sannyasin?

Question 2: Once at Darshan I heard you say of a visitor that he would be a good sannyasin. What is a good sannyasin? First, what is a sannyasin? A sannyasin is one who has come to understand the futility of so-called worldly life. A sannyas...

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Never, never for a single moment lose your freedom. And never destroy anybody else's freedom.

Once you have tasted the eternity of love, the timelessness of love, you are transformed. Then you are no more part of the mundane world; you enter into the world of the holy, the sacred. Of course you go on living in the same ordinary way, ...

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What is Existence? Is it something like what people call god?

Question - Osho, What is Existence? Is it something like what people call god? Sampurna, existence is that which is, and God is that which is not. Existence is a reality, God is a fiction. Existence is available only to meditators, people of...

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Are fear and guilt the same thing?

Question : Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, So jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Fear and guilt are not the same thing. Fear accepted becomes freedom; fear denied, rejected, condemned,...

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There are two languages: the language of words and the language of silence.

When I am talking to you, even if I am talking about something supra-intellectual, I talk in intellectual ways because otherwise you will not be able to understand what I am saying. Intellect is the only possible communication right now. Unl...

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Love is a state of being. You are just a loving person.

Question 2 Osho, Through the last events there has been tremendous joy and pain. the joy is to see how you are the only reality that matters. and the pain is that my connection is so superficial that i didn't listen to you. and suddenly i ca...

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Mystic can say existence is divine, because he is pure love

Beauty is not an objective quality; it does not belong to things. It is the loving eye that imparts it, that creates it. Beauty is a creation of love. Ordinarily people think they have fallen in love because the other person is so beautiful....

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Unless one feels guilty, one never rationalises

[A sannyasin says he is apprehensive about earning money in the west, because he has never enjoyed his work as a dentist, but he needs to pay tax arrears before returning here forever.] My feeling is you will not feel good without paying it....

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To decide means to take risks

Question 2: Osho, Often i have the feeling that i am not doing something i ought to be doing, or doing something i should not be doing; that something has to change and fast — a schooldays’ worry that i am not going to make the grade, that i...

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Richness does not mean only wealth or money; richness is a multidimensional phenomenon.

Richness does not mean only wealth or money; richness is a multidimensional phenomenon. A poet may be poor, but he has a sensitivity that no money can purchase. He is richer than any rich man. A musician may not be rich, but as far as his mu...

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To be creative is the only way to be religious.

The ultimate void is another name for god. The word 'god' has become ugly. The priests have exploited the word so much. That it has lost all beauty. The ultimate void simply means That from which everything arises And into which everything d...

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Feel responsible, accept responsibility for yourself, because only then will you become free.

Question 3 Is this difference -- the difference in their stages -- due to their own choice, or is it their destiny? To us it seems important to ask about creation. But in existence, nothing is created; it is a continuous and endless beginnin...

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To Buddha, freedom is God.

THE BUDDHA is the greatest anarchist in human history. He does not believe in any rule from the outside. To help you become free from the outside, he teaches you an inner rule, an inner discipline. Once you have learned the ways of the inner...

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Osho on Music

Osho on Music “To the ordinary musician the sound is important. To the master musician the silence is important: he uses sound only to create silence. He raises sound to a high pitch and then drops it so suddenly that you fall into a deep si...

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Sannyas is your decision.

The sannyasin is exactly the polar opposite of the soldier. Sannyas means a loyalty born out of love, not out of fear, out of growth, not out of retardation, out of your freedom, not out of your slavery. I give you total freedom because my t...

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Living dangerously means whenever there are alternatives, beware

Living dangerously means whenever there are alternatives, beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable, the honorable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. Choose something that ...

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on Jews and their guilt of crucifying Jesus Christ

Question 2 : Beloved Osho, Why are so many Jews here? Alexandra, Jews are intelligent people, the most intelligent in the world. That’s why they are hated so much. They have committed only one mistake in their whole history: they crucified J...

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If you really want to live you have to be ready to die

Death is an organic, integral part of life, and it is very friendly to life. Without it life cannot exist. Life exists because of death; death gives the background. Death is, in fact, a process of renewal. And death also happens each moment,...

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To be sane means to live with the reality as it is. To be sane means not to live through the mind. Use the mind

Deva means divine, nutano means new. Life is always new, it is never old; only the mind becomes old. The mind is always old, it is never new. Hence life and mind never meet. One is always old, the other is always new. How can they meet? Wher...

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How to be choiceless where important decisions are needed?

[A sannyasin asks for guidance on how to be choiceless where important decisions are needed.] There is some subtle problem, and it comes to everybody who wants to remain choiceless. But there is a misunderstanding, that’s why the problem. Ch...

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Psychology of Freedom - Freedom has two sides

Question 2: Osho, Being your sannyasin has given me the sense of freedom of not belonging to any particular place, country or even nationality. it's really great. i've felt able to move about without much fear and to be committed without fee...

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Your relationship with your disciples seems to be unique among the religions?

Question 1 Osho, Your relationship with your disciples seems to be unique among the religions. would you say something about this? It is unique, for the simple reason that it is not a relationship at all. We will have to go deep into the ver...

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Sannyas is a journey from misery to bliss

Sannyas is a journey from misery to bliss. We are living in misery. Sometimes it is less, sometimes it is more; when it is less you don’t feel it so much but the difference is only of degree. You are never really blissful and the moments tha...

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The master can do only one thing: he can remove everything that can stop your blossoming

I am not a teacher. I don't want to make something of you resembling some of my ideas. I don't have any idea about you. I don't carry any image that everybody should fit into. My whole approach is that each individual is unique, and nobody c...

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I found that people can change their clothes very easily but they cannot change their minds.

The seeker of the future or the future of the seeker? Question Beloved Osho, In one of your latest letters to the therapists hasya said that you abandoned the outer sannyas in favor of the inner sannyas. would you please say more about it? I...

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My whole teaching consists of two words, "meditation" and "love."

My whole teaching consists of two words, "meditation" and "love." Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move...

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You Are Responsible

The ordinary mind always throws the responsibility on somebody else. It is always the other who is making you suffer. Your wife is making you suffer, your husband is making you suffer, your parents are making you suffer, your children are ma...

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If it leads you towards God, it is true art, it is authentic art.

Question 2: Osho, I feel an urge for artistic expression and have had a disciplined, classical training in western music. often i feel this training imprisons spontaneous creativity and ihave found it very difficult to practice regularly lat...

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Meditation requires courage.

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery. He does not want t...

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I teach you to forgive others, but even more to forgive yourself.

Love knows how to forgive. Not only does one have to forgive others, one has to forgive oneself too, and that is the harder thing because we have been taught to feel guilty; we are burdened by guilt. A burdened man cannot grow and one who fe...

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To me, America is the country where religion is possible. Not India. India has still to succeed and fail in its success

Question 3: In America everybody seems to be tense and frustrated while in India even the beggars appear to be happy and contented. why? BECAUSE they are beggars. They cannot afford to be frustrated. Frustration first needs a few requirement...

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Hearing starts changing into listening.

Question 4: Yesterday you said that there is no goal, no path, no one to lead and no one to follow. Is this statement a lie again? Were you kidding us yesterday? That's what I am doing every day. That's the only possible thing to do. ALL sta...

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My sannyasins will have to face many antagonistic situations

Being blissful is taking a risk — because the mob lives in misery, and naturally it does not allow anybody to be blissful. That hurts the crowd, it wounds the mob; they start thinking “How dare you be blissful?” They are very at ease if you ...

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Choose courage - always choose courage.

Osho Quotes on Courage

To exploit people is wrong, to be exploited is as much wrong – both are wrong.

Freedom means that each person has the freedom to be what he wishes to be

Courage is the greatest religious quality, Everything else is secondary.

Does God exist? how can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists?

Osho on Osho Talks

My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Love can exist only in total freedom.

Everybody feels that others are responsible for his misery.

No Need to Reconcile

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom

Meditation opens doors to inner richness.

Gautama the Buddha's whole religion can be reduced to a single word. That word is freedom.

To be totally free one needs to be totally aware

What is the aim of life?

Why should one search for god?

Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God

A sannyasin is one who has known the world as frustrating

Guilt is imposed by others; shame is your own experience

on the difference between freedom for and freedom from

Sin does not mean sin, it simply means missing the target. We have gone astray

You are not guilty. You may be ignorant

All politicians are chimpanzees - without exception.

Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

A buddhafield facilitates many processes which can happen without the buddhafield, but it would take long long, arduous effort.

To be initiated into sannyas means to be initiated into truth.

I am not to make anything out of you

Master and Disciple

Nobody really wants to be free, because freedom brings responsibility

This fragrance is an experience of a totally new atmosphere that does not exist in the outside world.

There are three kinds of freedom.

Guilt creates pathology. Drop your guilt. And don’t bother about the causes

We do not know that without courage there is no religion

We have gone astray, from the very beginning man is astray

A sannyasin has to reflect God. He has just to be a mirror

Freedom opens the door of responsibility.

I am a sinner. can i also become your sannyasin?

Behave As if You Are the First Here

A Vision of Freedom in a Culture of Lies

Agreeing with someone else is a psychological slavery.

The question-answer sessions are concerned with you, your growth, your progress

Responsibility is always the very first step of freedom.

God is the creator, they were just vehicles he used

Questioning is useless if there is no space to receive

What is your Message?

Is it true that one has to go through hell?

Live the material in a spiritual way; bring the quality of the spirit to matter

What is your Message?

Death is a social phenomenon, not individual. No individual dies

No one can achieve one's individuality by following another

The three basic dimensions of freedom for the individual

We are born only as opportunities, then everything depends on us

A real master always makes you feel good about yourself, not guilty; respectful towards yourself

Awareness brings freedom. In freedom there is no need for control

My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield

Spontaneity means: you don’t interfere, you are in a let-go

Just be responsible to yourself.

My sannyasins are not my followers.

A sannyasin is a person who lives more and more in alertness

The mystic can understand only one-dimensionally; the master has a wider view

Meditation needs not followers but friends.

He (enlightened man) does not answer your questions; he answers you

Courage is the most important religious quality

Freedom from is not true freedom : Three kind of freedom

I am an incurable dreamer.

What is a good sannyasin?

Never, never for a single moment lose your freedom. And never destroy anybody else's freedom.

What is Existence? Is it something like what people call god?

Are fear and guilt the same thing?

There are two languages: the language of words and the language of silence.

Love is a state of being. You are just a loving person.

Mystic can say existence is divine, because he is pure love

Unless one feels guilty, one never rationalises

To decide means to take risks

Richness does not mean only wealth or money; richness is a multidimensional phenomenon.

To be creative is the only way to be religious.

Feel responsible, accept responsibility for yourself, because only then will you become free.

To Buddha, freedom is God.

Osho on Music