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If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Whatsoever you do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.
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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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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.
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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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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.
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So when I say, Spread the word, I mean whatever I have been telling you, go on spreading in as many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that the word reaches to every nook and corner of the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death -- that is not power. But the word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring new life to you; it can give you rebirth, resurrection -- that is power.
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.
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There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music.
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
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Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
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If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.
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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
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The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.
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Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.
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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.
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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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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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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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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
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If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-min. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond.
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Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
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When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God reflects. Then all chaos disappears, all questions disappear.
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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.
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Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.
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Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
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Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen.
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.
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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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Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
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The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue.
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
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Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.
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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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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.
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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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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
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Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is agelessness.
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I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me.
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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.
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
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Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter.
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
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If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
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I have no wish to placate you with false, hollow and worthless words exhorting you to love mankind. The so-called religions have said these things to you for generations. I am here to urge you to love real men, to love your fellow beings - not mankind but the men who live and work around you. Humanity is just a word; mankind is just a label. You cannot find humanity or mankind anywhere. And so humanity is easy to love because the only thing you have to do is mouth a few platitudes.
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If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.
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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
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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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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.
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Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
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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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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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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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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
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Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.
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Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
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A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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We need a world - a new man, a new woman, a new child, who has intelligence. Not to imitate, not to deceive, but to stand on his own with power and integrity. Even if it means that he will be condemned by the whole world, it does not matter. What ultimately matters is that you have your own face.
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If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
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The moment you experience your own being, you have experienced the being of this whole universe because your heartbeat is part of the heartbeat of the universe.
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
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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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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
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Once your intelligence and your innocence are available to you, just like two wings, the whole sky is yours. There are no more boundaries for you.
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Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
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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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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.
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
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If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.
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I teach a new man, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world.[....] only with the death of the old can the new be born. The cessation of the old is the beginning of the new. My message to humanity is a new man.
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
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There is only one thing that can make you an emperor and that is your own being. Just find it.
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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
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Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.
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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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Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.
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We are bringing a new approach in religion. You do not go away from the world, but rather go deeper into it and change it. This is more courageous.
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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.
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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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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.
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Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
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Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence
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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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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.
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
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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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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
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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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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.
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The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.
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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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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.
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Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed — and that you are, you already are.
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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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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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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
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Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.
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Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.
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I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.
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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.
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
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In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
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These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle
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If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.
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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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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. This is the way existence wants you to be.
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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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If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.
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My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.
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Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
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Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.
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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.
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.
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Witnessing is the greatest miracle in the world, because it takes you out of the circle of birth and death and gives you wings to fly into the eternal sky.
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Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
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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.
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
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To me, this is religion - enjoying the air, enjoying the sea, enjoying the sand, enjoying the sun—because there is no other god than existence itself. Zorba the Buddha, on the one hand, is the end of the old man—his religions, his politics, his nations, his racial discriminations, and all kinds of stupidities. On the other hand, zorba the Buddha is the beginning of a new man—a man totally free to be himself, allowing his nature to blossom. There is no conflict Zorba and Buddha. The conflict been created by the so-called religions.
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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.
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Start enjoying that which you are, and then this very ordinary life suddenly becomes extraordinary. Then these ordinary days have such tremendous poetry.
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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.
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Just as water flows downwards towards the ocean, beauty, truth, love — all that is valuable in existence — flows towards a person who is nobody.
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Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.
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I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
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Truth can whisper its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is purity.
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Hate can very easily turn into love, just as love can turn into hate. They are two sides of the same coin.
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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.
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Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.
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I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.
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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.
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As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty.
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To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
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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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God is No Where, Life in Now Here.
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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.
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Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.
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Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. You are your hell and your heaven too.
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Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.
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Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.
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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.
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Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.
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Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.
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The moment you see that whatsoever you are in your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances.
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Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
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Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life.
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Prayer is meaningless if it is not out of alertness. And a man of alertness need not have any prayer – alertness is enough unto itself.
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Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.
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Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.
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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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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.
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Only by knowing oneself does one become capable of knowing the ultimate, because at the very core of your being the ultimate is present.
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My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.
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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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Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.
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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.
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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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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.
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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.
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First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.
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Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.
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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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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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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
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you cannot be anybody else than yourself. That is authentic religiousness Every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.
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There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.
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When one wants to come to oneself no path is needed because one is already there. Just recognition – and the revolution happen! Just a remembrance!
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Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation
- Osho
It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.
- Osho
Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
- Osho
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.
- Osho
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
- Osho
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
- Osho
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
- 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
Love is not a higher quality than truth.
- Osho
Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
- Osho
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
- Osho
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.
- Osho
Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.
- Osho
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.
- Osho
When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.
- Osho
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
- Osho
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
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
- Osho
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
- Osho
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
- Osho
Mind always creates duality.
- Osho
Witness is the highest growth of consciousness. There is nothing beyond it. To remain a witness, awake or asleep, is the whole process of meditation.
- Osho
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
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
- Osho
Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.
- Osho
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
- 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
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
Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center.
- Osho
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
- Osho
I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.
- 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
Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.
- Osho
Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.
- Osho
Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.
- Osho
Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
- Osho
Never ask for sympathy. Be happy and love will be flowing towards you. Love is the right coin; sympathy is the wrong coin. It looks like love, it is not love.
- Osho
Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the centre, fear always comes from the periphery.
- Osho
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higer levels.
- Osho
To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.
- Osho
The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
- Osho
Remember one thing: that you should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving.
- Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- Osho
Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.
- Osho
To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.
- 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
Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
- Osho
You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.
- Osho
Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
- 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
Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.
- Osho
I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.
- 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
Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.
- 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
My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.
- Osho
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
My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.
- Osho
To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.
- Osho
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
- Osho
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
- Osho
To see the beauty of the flower you need silence, not analysis; beauty can never be understood through analysis.
- 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
Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.
- Osho
The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.
- 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
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
- Osho
Life begins where fear ends.
- 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
Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?
- Osho
Oneness is the key.
- Osho
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, I am the watcher, I am not sadness.
- Osho
Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.
- Osho
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.
- Osho
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
- 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.
- Osho
A real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he does not depend on anybody else.
- Osho
To move on the path of meditation is to move on the path of life ... life's joys, life's songs, life's laughter. And take everything easy. Easy is right.
- Osho
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
- Osho
Be – don’t try to become.
- Osho
Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.
- 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
Why limit yourself to small things! When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic!
- 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
Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
- Osho
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
- Osho
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Osho
God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
- Osho
If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
- 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.
- Osho
All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.
- Osho
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
- Osho
Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
- Osho
My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.
- Osho
Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.
- 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
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
- Osho
Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.
- Osho
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
- 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
Truth is to be lived, not understood.
- Osho
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.
- Osho
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
- Osho
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
- Osho
Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.
- 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 have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.
- Osho
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
- Osho
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
Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.
- 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
No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.
- Osho
A woman is to be loved, not understood.
- Osho
Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.
- Osho
On the path nothing more is needed than Patience
- Osho
Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.
- 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
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
- Osho
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
- Osho
Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
- Osho
Man is always exploited through fear.
- Osho
No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.
- Osho
You are too much identified with the false, the personality.
- 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
Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
- Osho
This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this; 'We come alone into this world, we go alone.' All togetherness is illusory.
- Osho
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- 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
To be in tune, to be harmonious with the universe, is bliss is joy, is music, is poetry. You start blooming the moment you are in tune with the whole.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
- Osho
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
- Osho
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
- 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
A real religious man is one who has no past, who has no autobiography, who is continuously new, each moment slipping with GOD. He does not bother – what has happened, has happened – finished! Put a full stop it, and never look back. Go on...he is always calling you ahead, and ahead. He is always persuading you to move into new territories of being: from lust to love, from love to prayer - and there are higher realms than prayer. And he is constantly on the move. If you follow him, the only way is to be constantly on the move. Be a river.
- Osho
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
- Osho
Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
- Osho
It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
- Osho
I don’t give u any discipline, any morality. I simple give u a clarity of vision. Out of that clarity whatsoever comes is good, is divine, and is moral.
- Osho
When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.
- 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
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
The world is a garland of millions of flowers, but running through all those flowers is a thread that keeps it together: that thread is love.
- Osho
A moment of truth is more valuable than a hundred years of life, because a moment of truth makes you part of eternity.
- Osho
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
- Osho
Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.
- Osho
You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is.
- Osho
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
Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is in love.
- 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
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
- Osho
Your trust in the total opens all your sensitivities to their extreme. This whole existence becomes a sheer dance, a sheer celebration.
- 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
Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
- Osho
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
- 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
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- 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
I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.
- Osho
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
- Osho
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
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
My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. Your whole life has to be colored by it.
- Osho
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
- Osho
This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These three experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity.
- Osho
A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response.
- Osho
I am not a psychoanalyst. I am not here to treat your minds and cure them. I am here to bring you out of your minds - healthy, unhealthy, neurotic, non-neurotic, it doesn't matter. I don't take any note of your mind, what kind of mind you have. Any kind of mind...you have to be taken out of it! So I don't go into the details, I simply start hammering!
- Osho
If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.
- Osho
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
- Osho
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
Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.
- 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
The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
- Osho
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
- Osho
I don’t want you to worship Buddha’s; I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love become it.
- Osho
Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
- 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
Life is our philosophy. Existence is our philosophy. To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion.
- Osho
Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.
- Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
- Osho
To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.
- Osho
Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.
- Osho
By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
- Osho
Be Yourself - and only then can you be responsible and authentic and real. But ordinarily everyone is just secondhand and borrowed, and that makes everything ugly.
- Osho
I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.
- Osho
To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
- Osho
There are only ways of being here: one is in bondage, another is in freedom. Watchfulness takes you out of the prison and opens the doors of infinity.
- Osho
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
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
All conditionings are based on belief. And my whole effort is that experience should be the only criterion not belief.
- Osho
Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.
- Osho
Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.
- Osho
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
- Osho
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
- Osho
My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.
- 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
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
Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.
- 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
To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.
- Osho
Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.
- Osho
Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.
- Osho
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
- Osho
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
- 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
Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms, love is a mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new.
- Osho
Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.
- 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
The lover is an emperor; the creator is an emperor – without invading the whole world. He has invaded the whole universe out of sheer loving creativity.
- Osho
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
God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.
- Osho
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation.
- Osho
Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.
- Osho
You create yourself moment to moment. You are mot born as a fixed entity, but only as an infinite. You are born as a seed, not as a tree.
- Osho
A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality.
- 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
Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.
- Osho
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
To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
- Osho
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.
- Osho
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
- Osho
Unless you find your spontaneity, unless you find your element, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, you cannot be meditative.
- Osho
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
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.
- Osho
Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.
- Osho
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
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
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
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
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.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
- Osho
The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown,makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear.
- Osho
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
Consciousness plus thinking is Waking, Consciousness minus thinking is Samadhi, Unconsciousness plus thinking is Dreaming, Unconsciousness minus thinking is Sleep.
- Osho
Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.
- Osho
When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
- Osho
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
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
- 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
Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.
- 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.
- 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.
- Osho
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. The choice is yours. You can move from the mind to no-mind; the bridge is witnessing.
- Osho
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
- Osho
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
- Osho
Love equalizes people. You give because you love, you give because you respect. You give and allow the man to feel, to be honored, that is true giving.
- Osho
The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
- Osho
The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
- 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 teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.
- Osho
Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
- Osho
Only idiots are not controversial.
- Osho
The only quality that buddha has is pure awareness, consciousness, witnessing. Witnessing is a key word for all meditators. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness.
- Osho
Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.
- Osho
Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
- 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
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
To live a life of truth, ever if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies.
- Osho
Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.
- 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
Whenever there is no conflict between you and the whole, not even a rumor of conflict, you are healthy. To be whole is to be healthy.
- Osho
The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.
- Osho
A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.
- 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
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
- 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. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.
- Osho
Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
- Osho
Always remember that to be happy is to be religious; to be happy is to be virtuous; to be celebrating is to be prayerful.
- Osho
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
A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.
- Osho
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Osho
Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.
- Osho
Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
- 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
Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.
- Osho
When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.
- Osho
Be herenow… just this moment.
- 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
You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
- Osho
Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
- Osho
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
- Osho
So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.
- Osho
Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.
- Osho
Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
- Osho
Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.
- Osho
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- Osho
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
- 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.
- 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
Wherever you are, reality is. You are part of reality and you exist only as an organic part to reality. You cannot go away. You cannot separate yourself.
- Osho
All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.
- Osho
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- 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
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
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- 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
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.
- Osho
To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors.
- Osho
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
- Osho
My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.
- Osho
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
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
- 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
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.
- Osho
The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.
- Osho
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
Life is freedom. It does not impose any meaning on you; it simply gives you an opportunity to create your own meaning. The meaning has to be created.
- Osho
Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.
- Osho
You are rich if you have tasted the nectar of your own consciousness. You are rich if you are capable of sharing your love unconditionally.
- Osho
Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
- Osho
If you are clear and clean in the mind, you will be able to find solutions for every problem that arises in your life.
- 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
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
- Osho
This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.
- Osho
Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.
- 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
The ego is the cancer of the inner, the cancer of the soul. And the only remedy - the only remedy I say - is meditation.
- Osho
Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
- Osho
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
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
Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.
- 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
That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.
- Osho
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
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.
- Osho
Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.
- Osho
Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.
- Osho
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 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
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
- Osho
Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
- Osho
I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
- 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
Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.
- Osho
A religious person is a desireless person.
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
- Osho
Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
- Osho
My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.
- Osho
Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.
- Osho
Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
- Osho
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
- 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
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.
- Osho
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
- Osho
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
- Osho
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
- Osho
The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.
- Osho
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
- 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
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
My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.
- Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.
- Osho
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
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
- Osho
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
- Osho
Whenever you feel a problem look within your heart. If you are at ease, you are on the right path. Your heart is the criterion.
- Osho
Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.
- Osho
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
- 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
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
The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.
- 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
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
In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears.
- Osho
Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.
- Osho
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
- Osho
Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.
- 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
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
- 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
Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- 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
We are not interested in going to paradise; We are interested in making the paradise come here.
- Osho
There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.
- Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
- 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
Dancing is not just a movement. When a movement becomes ecstatic then it is dance. When the movement is so total that there is no ego, then it is a dance.
- Osho
Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.
- Osho
With fear, hate, jealousy-anything whatsoever- don’t create a problem out of it. Accept it, allow it, pass through it, and you will defeat all suffering.
- Osho
Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
- 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
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
- 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
Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
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If you can help her to die silently, meditatively, you have served her

[A sannyasin has to return to the west because her mother is dying of a life-long illness.] So it is a good release for her, mm? She should not be prevented, she should be helped to leave the body. Because life in each and every case is not ...

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Death has to be understood, because death is the goal of life

Question 4: Yesterday you said that the understanding of death is the basis of eastern psychology, and the understanding of sex is the basis of western psychology. will you please say something more about it? Death is the greatest thing that...

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When death becomes a bliss, it is a samadhi

Watch a dead person — every person looks beautiful, silent. Not that he died in silence, not that he died beautifully — rarely does a person die beautifully. Ninety-nine percent of people struggle very badly — fight, great stress arises. Jus...

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The real problem is the priest, and God is the invention of the priest.

(Interview BY Aaj Ka Anand) Question : With gautam buddha religion took a quantum leap. god became meaningless and only meditation was important. now, twenty-five centuries after buddha, again religion is taking the quantum leap in your pres...

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on Dying in Master’s Presence – Physical closeness means nothing

Question : Osho, Thoughts of death have been a frequent visitor during my disciplehood. How can a disciple die in a master’s presence, especially when the master is physically distant? Osho, is mahakashyap the only answer? The question is no...

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The basic problem of love is to first become mature

You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery repeated in different forms – but the same misery repeated; it is almost the same. You can change your ...

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When i die, does my individuality remain?

Question : Osho, When i die, does my individuality remain? Yes, your individuality remains, but your personality disappears — and you have to understand the difference between the two. The personality is something that is given by the societ...

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In accepting the very challenge, one becomes a human being

Anand means bliss, sikha means a peak, a mountain-peak. Bliss is a peak. It is the highest peak of consciousness; there is nothing higher than that. All else – beauty, good, truth, consciousness – are smaller peaks compared to the peak of bl...

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on Objective art and Subjective art - Gurdjieff has divided art into two categories

Gurdjieff has divided art into two categories. The modern art he calls subjective art. The ancient art — the real art — the people who made the pyramids, the people who made the Taj Mahal, the people who made the caves of Ajanta and Ellora, ...

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Whenever you know the keys of how to open the doors of music you have opened the doors of heaven also

Question 4 Over the years i had a long affair with a drum -- and have met so many brothers and sisters who have fallen into meditation through drums. why do dancers love drums? In the nohdrama of japan there is a story about a drum. would yo...

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Tell him to invite death; tell him to think of death not as a foe but as a friend

[A sannyasin wants to go home because his father is dying of a brain tumor but is still conscious.] Then it is good – you go. And help him to die meditatively. Meditation is a bridge between life and death. It is of immense value while one i...

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Has civilization done man any good?

Question 5 Has civilization done man any good? Yes, it makes you sin so hard that one has to become a saint by and by. It throws you into such deep misery that you have to start looking for clues to go out of the imprisonment. Civilization h...

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Death can be as beautiful as anything else. West has completely forgotten how to Die

[A sannyasin said she is upset about her father, who is ill with emphysema: I feel unclear about my relationship with him. I feel a mixture of guilt and fear. Osho checks her energy.] A few things to be understood …. Yes, there is something ...

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Osho on Lotus : The lotus is the symbol of the ultimate unfolding of consciousness

Osho on Lotus The lotus is the symbol of the ultimate unfolding of consciousness. It is the most beautiful flower in the East, the most fragrant, and it has become the symbol of ultimate awakening, ultimate awareness. It has become the symbo...

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on Purpose of Existence and Creation – Existence exists without any cause

Question : You said that god is the creative process. Then why are things created? What is the purpose of creation, or is it something that just exists? If God exists as a person then the question why becomes relevant. If God is a person the...

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It rarely happens that a person dies with God on his mind

BAULS say that there is only one way to come out of the stupor man lives in, and that is remembrance of God: NAM-SMARAN, remembrance of His name. That has always been part of the basic techniques on the path of love — to remember Him. And wh...

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on Virtues – Man cannot be virtuous unless he is blissful

Man cannot be virtuous unless he is blissful. In the past religions have been teaching just the opposite; hence the failure of the old religions. All religions have failed. Humanity has not become religious at all. After thousands of years o...

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God is not to be searched for; what is to be searched for is Consciousness

From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light — and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can ...

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Why have all the great masters come from the East?

Question : Osho, Why have all the great masters come from the East? Because humanity has yet not been total. The East is introvert, the West is extrovert. Man is split, mind is schizophrenic. That’s why all the great masters have come from t...

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Love is the only light there is in life

Prem Ellen. Prem means love; Ellen means light. Love is the only light there is in life. Love is the inner light. It needs no fuel; it is eternal. It is not caused by anything, hence it cannot be turned off. Anything that can be put on can b...

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Fighting with god is like hitting your head against the wall

Fighting with god is like hitting your head against the wall: it is not going to do any harm to the wall, only your head will be destroyed. You will lose your sanity. To be in tune with god means to find a door. You can go through it and the...

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If you are alive you have to take risks

Question 2 Is it good to take risks? Good or bad is not the question. If you are alive you have to take risks. Life is a risk. Only death is secure, life is never secure — there is no security. The companies that are called Life Insurance sh...

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on Love and so called Love

Question 2 : Beloved Osho, As you were talking about indian and western sannyasins, i felt what you were saying was true — sometimes the indians are too much of the heart. It is hard to say no to them, yet you cannot say yes to their expecta...

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Where does Courage come from? Is there any way to stimulate people’s Courage?

Question : You have spoken of the need for Courage. Where does Courage come from? Is there any way to stimulate people’s Courage? Everything that is valuable comes from your own innermost being. It may be love, it may be intelligence, it may...

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why are so many young people from the west now becoming interested in eastern religion and philosophy?

Question 4 What factors do you attribute the western youth revolt to, and why are so many young people from the west now becoming interested in eastern religion and philosophy? Mind is a very contradictory thing. It works in polar opposites....

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Osho Quotes on Master

Osho on Master The true birth is through the master. ◆ A real master teaches you unlearning. ◆ I am here just to be a midwife. That’s what Socrates used to say – that a master is just a midwife. I can help, I can protect, I can guide, that’s...

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Death will reveal to you more than life has given. Your death can become your satori

[A sannyasin with terminal cancer and a few weeks to live is returning to the west. Osho blesses him.] Don’t be worried… don t be worried. I am coming with you; don’t be worried at all. You have taken it really as it should be taken. I have ...

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Ego is like darkness. It is the absence of love

Love is not something to be obtained from the outside. Love is the music of your inner being. Nobody can give you love. Love can arise within you, but it cannot be obtained from the outside. There is no shop, no market, no salesman where you...

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Freedom is the goal of life. We are caught in many limitations – the body, the mind

Anand Ciska. Anand means bliss; ciska means freedom. Bliss is freedom and vice versa: freedom is bliss. In fact they are two sides of the same coin. Misery arises out of limitation. Bliss is to know that we are infinite, that even the sky is...

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Only love brings a state of no anxiety

Prem means love, and achinta means no anxiety. And remember that only love brings a state of no anxiety – and only love. Everything else creates a new anxiety. You can go on changing your anxieties – somebody is seeking money, somebody is se...

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A dream is a very fragile thing; the reality goes on bumping in and breaking

For the mind everything is crooked, not because everything is crooked – the way the mind looks, anything that penetrates the medium of the mind becomes crooked. Just as you put a straight thing into water, a straight staff, and suddenly you ...

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Osho Quotes on Sin and Virtue

Osho on Sin and Virtue Bring your whole mind to light and you will see -- all that is miserable starts dying, and all that is beautiful and blissful starts sprouting. In the light of consciousness, that which remains is good, and that which ...

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on Krishna – Whenever there is enlightenment, god takes possession of the enlightened perso

Krishna is one of the incarnations of god. The Hindu concept of god coming to earth is not like the Christian – not that god has only one son, not that god only comes in one form, as Christ: god comes in many forms, god comes in every age. G...

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Why have all the great masters come from the East?

Question : Osho, Why have all the great masters come from the East? Because humanity has yet not been total. The East is introvert, the West is extrovert. Man is split, mind is schizophrenic. That’s why all the great masters have come from t...

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on Experience of timelessness in love

If you can be loving in a single moment that is enough, because you never have two moments together. Only one moment is given. When one is lost, a second is given. You have only one moment always with you. If you know how to be loving in one...

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on how to share your Meditation with Dying Person

[A sannyasin said her father has cancer and her family keep asking her to go home, but she is undecided as she also wants to stay here. Osho says that as the father is old, it is better she go…. ] And this is a significant time. Go, and be a...

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Why is man afraid to leave his body and his possessions?

Question 4: Osho, Why is man afraid to leave his body and his possessions? Because you don’t have anything else — just your body, your possessions. And what are your possessions? Extensions of your body. For example, no animal has created we...

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on Free Will – How to see what is My will and God’s will?

Question 4 : How to see what is My will and God’s will? There is a Chinese saying: Man is a puppet when he acts, a poet when he describes. All that you think is your freedom is nothing but your poetry. An unconscious man cannot be free, cann...

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Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do?

Question : Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do? It is bound to be so. They sound egoistic because they cannot be humble in the sense you understand humility. Try to understand. It is a delicate point. Whatsoever you call h...

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What is the most essential factor in search of truth? - I say courage

7. What is the most essential factor in search of truth? I say courage: the courage to discover one’s authentic self. To know oneself as one is, is the most essential thing. It is very difficult, but without it there can be no understanding ...

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Heartache is a positive thing. Headache is a negative thing

Question 4: My heart aches. such a tiny crevice of it feels able to open to you. I want to melt and flow around you like a puddle; and i don’t know how. Somehow my heart knows what it would feel like to open totally to you, and because it do...

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on Living in this moment and time

What is psychological time? Mind is psychological time. Mind is time. If you don’t have any mind and you are simply silent with no thought moving within, there is no time for you, not psychological time. The clock will go on moving, but for ...

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To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow

To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow, to take a decision to go into dangers, to take a decision to live in indecision. This seems paradoxical. It is not. One has to begin somewhere, and even to live indecisively one has to have a ...

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Unless you experience it totally, you cannot be finished with it

Anand means bliss or blissful, and sugatta is a name of buddha. Literally it means well gone, because in india we call those people well-gone who are not going to come back again, who are gone forever. They have gone so well that they will n...

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Simple method of Meditation for Latin Lovers

Question : Just a simple method of Meditation to suggest to Latin Lovers, So they may find their way? The simplest method for lovers is, while they are making love they should make it a sacred experience. All the religions have destroyed the...

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The future has to allow there to be a deep harmony between inner polarities

The difference between animals and man is that animals have fixed potentialities while man has infinite possibilities. But they are only possibilities. Man can grow, but this growth must be helped. We must open up centers throughout the worl...

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Bondage is never in a Situation, It is in the Attitude

Question 8: Is the Desire to stay near you, not going away, also a Bondage? It depends, because bondage is never in a situation, it is in the attitude. If you want to go away and cannot, then it is a bondage. If you don’t want to go away, th...

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Why are there no women masters?

Question : You, Buddha, Jesus, etc. are all men. you say women are closer to no-mind. why did you choose a man’s body? why are there no women masters? It is from Deva Chandan – of course, a woman who belongs to the lib movement. It is signif...

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Music helps you from the outside to fall in tune with the inner. Music is a device; it was invented by the buddhas.

Question 2 Osho, I am a musician and i have come across many music teachers over the years. but now it seems that i have not only found a master but also the ultimate music teacher. is it perhaps the same thing? and could you please say some...

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You are Gods - dreaming that you are men

Question : Dear Osho, Are you really just a man who got enlightened? Just the other way round: a god who got lost and has found himself again; a god who rested and slept deeply and dreamt of being a man and is now awake. And the same is true...

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Why has there never been a single Woman Enlightened Master?

Question : Why has there never been a single Woman Enlightened Master? A woman cannot be a Master — it is not possible. When a woman arrives she becomes a Mistress, not a Master. The fulfilment of a woman is love. The flowering of a woman is...

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If you catch hold of him while he is still under the shock of the heart attack

[A sannyasin has to leave because his father has a serious heart attack.] Mm… go, and when he is able to do something, show him the nadabrahma, the humming meditation. You can do it first sitting by his side and he can watch. Then you do it ...

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on Unconditional Love – Love people but love unconditionally

Attachment, clinging, possessiveness are like rocks, hindering the path of your inner spring. But these are big rocks and they go on becoming bigger with every day. As time passes, the rocks go on becoming heavier and heavier. The child know...

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Life is movement. It is like a river- always moving

What is the message of Heraclitus, the deepest message? Understand so you can follow. He does not believe in things, he believes in processes — process is God to him. And if you watch closely, you will see that THINGS don’t exist in the worl...

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What is Death, and what exists after death?

Question : What is Death, and what exists after death? If you think about what is, you will pervert i t. If you think about it, then you will impose your own conceptions on it. ’What is’ can be revealed only when there is no conception, no t...

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A man living on the circumference is a man without soul

Dhyan means meditation. Pathik means pilgrim, a traveler. Meditation is an inner journey. It is moving from your circumference to your own center. We live on the circumference and we have lived on the circumference for so many lives that we ...

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Sannyas means trusting me, because the journey is unknown and no maps are available.

Nirjara. It is one of the most important words in the Eastern search for truth. It comes from the Jaina tradition. That tradition is very much unknown in the West but is one of the most important in the East, as important as the Buddhist tra...

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A great courage is needed in life to be yourself, in failure, in success, in appreciation, in condemnation

[Osho explains the meaning of prem veeresh. Prem means love and veeresh means courage, and you have to imbibe the spirit of love and courage. Love is the basic quality of the religious man, and out of love, courage grows.] When I was a small...

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If we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life

Question : Osho, When you said that if we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life, we will have to start from the very beginning again, and go through the whole evolution of mankind one more time, I was very touched. Is it possible th...

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on Dying in Master’s Presence – Physical closeness means nothing

Question : Osho, Thoughts of death have been a frequent visitor during my disciplehood. How can a disciple die in a master’s presence, especially when the master is physically distant? Osho, is mahakashyap the only answer? The question is no...

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There is only one sin and that is unawareness.

Heraclitus touches the deepest problem of man: that is — fast asleep even while awake. You sleep when you sleep, but you also sleep while you are awake. What is the meaning of it? — because this is what Buddha says, this is what Jesus says, ...

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Anything done with awareness is virtue. Anything done with unawareness is sin.

Question 2: Osho, Can you say something about virtue? Fantastic! Here, we are not concerned about virtue at all. Virtue is for people who are unconscious; it is a training for them to say, "Don't say bullshit, say fantastic!" Virtue is a tra...

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God is not a thought but the experience of thoughtlessness

Deva means divine, unmana means no-mind. The state of no-mind is the state of the divine. God is not a thought but the experience of thoughtlessness. It is not a content in the mind; it is the explosion when the mind is contentless. It is no...

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Whatever you live unconsciously becomes a hangover

The first thing to remember is how to drop thoughts and become thoughtless — thoughtless but alert, because in deep sleep also you become thoughtless, and that won’t do. It is good for the body, that is why after a deep sleep your body feels...

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I would like to be a world teacher

Question : I would like to be a world teacher, The second Teerthankara of the “TRADITION OF THE MOON ” Is it possible to expose this desire to the public? First, if you really want to be a teacher, become a disciple. Unless you are a really ...

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Why is love so essential for spiritual growth?

Question : Why is love so essential for spiritual growth? Love and awareness is the highest form of polarity – just like man/woman, life/death, darkness/light, summer/winter, outer/ inner, yin/yang, the body and the soul, the creation and th...

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One should live naturally on all the four steps

Question : Osho, What is the difference between human nature, instinct, and habit? Are there any means by which they can change or not? Sahabzadev Hasan, habit is not nature, it is nurture. You learn it by imitation. By seeing people doing t...

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God is not a person but the impersonal presence. The very life of existence is God, the living energy is God.

Bliss is a by-product of trust, of total trust in existence or in God. God is not a person but the impersonal presence. The very life of existence is God, the living energy is God. And to trust in it means to stop struggling against it. Stru...

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on Free Will and its relation to Being and Non doing

Question 4 : Please explain man’s free will and its relation to being and non-doing. There is nothing like that, like free will. It is just an ego concept, there cannot be anything like that. I am not saying the opposite, that you are depend...

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You cling to life because your life is unfulfilled

if you want to abide always and always, you have not lived the moment. One who has lived his life truly, authentically, one who has enjoyed it, is always ready to die, is always ready to leave. One who has not enjoyed and celebrated, one who...

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The present is the door, and your single-mindedness is the key

The dreamer’s mind is divided in two: in witnessing and dreaming. Then you are not one; you are split. While you are simply witnessing you are one. There is no duality in you. You are — that’s all. So try to become one, single-minded. Whatso...

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Death has to be explored, and with tremendous joy

[To an elderly sannyasin] Because the last days of the life should be totally devoted to prayer, to meditation, to god. One has to prepare for death. And death is more important than life, because life is just superficial. Death will take yo...

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on energy phenomena in death – Sai Baba’s tomb is not dead. It is still alive

Now try to understand this parable: AT THE DEATH OF A PARISHIONER, MASTER DOGO, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS DISCIPLE ZENGEN, VISITED THE BEREAVED FAMILY. WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO EXPRESS A WORD OF SYMPATHY, ZENGEN WENT UP TO THE COFFIN, RAPPED ON IT, A...

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Neither terror of death nor the process of death make man unconscious

Question 3: Osho, It is stated that man becomes unconscious at the time of death. Why is this so? Is it due to the terror of death or the process of death? Neither terror of death nor the process of death make man unconscious. He has been le...

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Cremation destroys all identity and attachment of the dead with their bodies

Question 4 Is there a way, apart from occultism, to know intellectually about the soul and its rebirth? in other words, can the existence of the soul and the fact of rebirth be proved philosophically without the help of a practical disciplin...

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Start living in the infinite, because that is our true reality

Aseem means the unbounded, the infinite. Start living in the infinite, because that is our true reality. The idea that we are finite is just an idea, it does not correspond to reality; hence it creates much misery. Once you start thinking of...

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Let love be your virtue

Prem Sushila. It means love virtue... and love is the only virtue. Other virtues are needed only when love is missing. They are substitutes and very poor substitutes at that. Love is the only commandment. If love is missing then the ten comm...

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In between was the heaven - you jump from one hell to another.

Poor people are miserable, you can understand, but rich people are also miserable. Those who have are as much miserable as those who have not. Ill people are miserable, but healthy are also miserable. Misery seems to be somewhere else. Miser...

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If your Father is Dying, then this is the time not to miss but to settle Everything

[A sannyasin says: A week ago I mentioned to someone ’I think my father might die’ and today during the lecture my watch stopped; then I got the telegram that he’s very sick…. I just have the feeling that this is the first time I can underst...

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on Enlightenment in the Moment of Death

Question 3: Beloved Osho, Sannyasins who are dying in your presence discover their enlightenment. Why is it so difficult for those of us who are still alive? Is it that life comes so close to death, and we are afraid of dying yet still not c...

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After enlightenment there is no way for him to choose anything.

Question : Osho, How can the world ever become a paradise when all enlightened people always choose not to be born again? Anand Anahad, one of the most fundamental things about the enlightened person is that he attains to enlightenment by dr...

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We live with momentary things. That’s why there is so much misery

We live with momentary things. That’s why there is so much misery, because whatsoever is momentary is not going to satisfy. By the time you become aware that it is there it is already gone. This life is almost a flux: it is continuously movi...

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if you are going to die tomorrow, then how many things will be important

Deva means divine, uparati means indifference to the non-essential – a divine indifference to the non essential. And that’s the whole work of the seeker. We are caught up in the non-essential, the mundane, the trivial. For the moment it look...

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on Sin Guilt Teachings in Christianity

Question 11: Aren’t a lot of the problems of the western mind the result of the sin and guilt in christianity? Yes, that is bound to be. The concept of sin creates a very different consciousness around it. This concept is lacking in the East...

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on responsibility of a doctor towards a patient who is dying

Question : Osho, What is the responsibility of a doctor towards a patient who is dying and no longer wants to live? Should the doctor help him to die? It is something very significant to be understood. In the past, in the beginning days of m...

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Man can function from three centres: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel.

Man can function from three centres: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel. If you function from the head you will go on spinning thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. They are very insubstantial, dream-stuff – t...

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on Death - The experience of entering death voluntarily is meditation, samadhi.

“The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but even seems like the cardinal truth of life–it appears as if the whole of l...

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Questioning is an internal turbulence, and this creates distance

Whenever you ask questions you will feel distant, because when you are asking questions your mind has to prepare itself for action – you have to think and ask and so on. And when you are doing these things a distance will be created. Your mi...

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How to become utterly present in the present

Prem means love, vatayana means now, the present moment – love now. And my whole emphasis is on this moment, because this moment contains all. Now is the only reality – all else is either memory or imagination. And even for the past to exist...

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A Buddha cannot be asked to help you. He is help – but a passive help

The first thing: to ask the Buddha to help us is foolish, for three reasons. First, he cannot. Second, even if he could he would not. Third, we do not need to be helped since we are all Buddhas already. Zen people say: Because of these three...

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Whatsoever happens in time is going to die. In time, the eternal is not possible

Deva means divine, and akal means two things: one is timelessness and another is deathlessness. One word has both the meanings because in the eastern mind – particularly in the indian consciousness – time and death are synonymous. Whatsoever...

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Religion is possible only through courage, but usually the cowardly become religious.

Dharma Farrell. Dharma means religion; Farrell means a man of courage. Religion is possible only through courage, but usually the cowardly become religious. The temples, the churches, the mosques, are full of cowards. Their God is nothing bu...

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on Dancing - Nijinsky Dancer Lost in Dancing

Dancing is not passive, it is very active. In the end you become movement; the body is forgotten, only movement remains. Really, dancing is a most unearthly thing, a most unearthly art, because it is just rhythm in movement. It is absolutely...

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Love is nourishment for the soul. Without love you will die spiritually

Question 2: Osho, Since falling in love, even though having little to do with him, it seems entirely my own journey. Feeling nourished and much power in my being. The question is from Anand Amrita. Love is nourishment. Love is exactly like f...

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You cannot excite a master

You cannot excite a master, even if death is there, because excitement belongs to the mind. And you cannot surprise a master, even if death is there, because surprise also belongs to the mind. Why can’t you surprise a master? — because he ne...

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Sharing that divineness is virtue. There is no other virtue in existence.

Friends, One sannyasin has asked that his parents, and particularly his mother, harass him very much while he is meditating. She says to him, "Why are you wasting your time sitting here, doing nothing? Who are you bluffing by closing your ey...

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One of most fundamental laws of Life: if you hate others, you will Hate yourself

Deva means divine or godly, and kalyani means one who brings blessings. The full name will mean: one who brings divine blessings... and each of us has the power to become a blessing to the world. The same energy can become destructive and a ...

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Now they turn to the east, and the east is turning to the west

Question 3 One day you explained about the imbalance of object-centered western culture and subject-centered eastern culture, and you also mentioned that nowhere in any culture is the total human being accepted. do you visualize such a comin...

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Spirituality is not the practising of virtues

SPIRITUALITY is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is v...

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If you can help her to die silently, meditatively, you have served her

Death has to be understood, because death is the goal of life

When death becomes a bliss, it is a samadhi

The real problem is the priest, and God is the invention of the priest.

on Dying in Master’s Presence – Physical closeness means nothing

The basic problem of love is to first become mature

When i die, does my individuality remain?

In accepting the very challenge, one becomes a human being

on Objective art and Subjective art - Gurdjieff has divided art into two categories

Whenever you know the keys of how to open the doors of music you have opened the doors of heaven also

Tell him to invite death; tell him to think of death not as a foe but as a friend

Has civilization done man any good?

Death can be as beautiful as anything else. West has completely forgotten how to Die

Osho on Lotus : The lotus is the symbol of the ultimate unfolding of consciousness

on Purpose of Existence and Creation – Existence exists without any cause

It rarely happens that a person dies with God on his mind

on Virtues – Man cannot be virtuous unless he is blissful

God is not to be searched for; what is to be searched for is Consciousness

Why have all the great masters come from the East?

Love is the only light there is in life

Fighting with god is like hitting your head against the wall

If you are alive you have to take risks

on Love and so called Love

Where does Courage come from? Is there any way to stimulate people’s Courage?

why are so many young people from the west now becoming interested in eastern religion and philosophy?

Osho Quotes on Master

Death will reveal to you more than life has given. Your death can become your satori

Ego is like darkness. It is the absence of love

Freedom is the goal of life. We are caught in many limitations – the body, the mind

Only love brings a state of no anxiety

A dream is a very fragile thing; the reality goes on bumping in and breaking

Osho Quotes on Sin and Virtue

on Krishna – Whenever there is enlightenment, god takes possession of the enlightened perso

Why have all the great masters come from the East?

on Experience of timelessness in love

on how to share your Meditation with Dying Person

Why is man afraid to leave his body and his possessions?

on Free Will – How to see what is My will and God’s will?

Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do?

What is the most essential factor in search of truth? - I say courage

Heartache is a positive thing. Headache is a negative thing

on Living in this moment and time

To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow

Unless you experience it totally, you cannot be finished with it

Simple method of Meditation for Latin Lovers

The future has to allow there to be a deep harmony between inner polarities

Bondage is never in a Situation, It is in the Attitude

Why are there no women masters?

Music helps you from the outside to fall in tune with the inner. Music is a device; it was invented by the buddhas.

You are Gods - dreaming that you are men

Why has there never been a single Woman Enlightened Master?

If you catch hold of him while he is still under the shock of the heart attack

on Unconditional Love – Love people but love unconditionally

Life is movement. It is like a river- always moving

What is Death, and what exists after death?

A man living on the circumference is a man without soul

Sannyas means trusting me, because the journey is unknown and no maps are available.

A great courage is needed in life to be yourself, in failure, in success, in appreciation, in condemnation

If we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life

on Dying in Master’s Presence – Physical closeness means nothing

There is only one sin and that is unawareness.

Anything done with awareness is virtue. Anything done with unawareness is sin.

God is not a thought but the experience of thoughtlessness

Whatever you live unconsciously becomes a hangover

I would like to be a world teacher

Why is love so essential for spiritual growth?

One should live naturally on all the four steps

God is not a person but the impersonal presence. The very life of existence is God, the living energy is God.

on Free Will and its relation to Being and Non doing

You cling to life because your life is unfulfilled

The present is the door, and your single-mindedness is the key

Death has to be explored, and with tremendous joy

on energy phenomena in death – Sai Baba’s tomb is not dead. It is still alive

Neither terror of death nor the process of death make man unconscious

Cremation destroys all identity and attachment of the dead with their bodies

Start living in the infinite, because that is our true reality

Let love be your virtue

In between was the heaven - you jump from one hell to another.

If your Father is Dying, then this is the time not to miss but to settle Everything

on Enlightenment in the Moment of Death