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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.
- Osho
You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
- Osho
Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.
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If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.
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Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.
- Osho
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
You have to relax, you have to stop judging.
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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on 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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Being playful is one of the great secrets of inner transformation. Learn to be playful. If all seriousness disappears from your life, you are religious.
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Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
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Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.
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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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If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.
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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
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Love is not a higher quality than truth.
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Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.
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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.
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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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Dancing is not just a movement. When a movement becomes ecstatic then it is dance. When the movement is so total that there is no ego, then it is a dance.
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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
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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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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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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
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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.
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
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Try to understand that existence consists of polar opposites. If you choose one side, your life will remain only half; and a half-life is a miserable life.
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.
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I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life.
- Osho
The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
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My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.
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When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
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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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All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.
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A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation by love, not by struggle.
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Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.
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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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If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.
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No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
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Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.
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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.
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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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My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.
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Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
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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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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.
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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
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There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.
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This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.
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One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful. Nothing else is needed just the pulsation of life is enough.
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I would hate to be respected by the present humanity -it does not have that intelligence, nor has it that heart, nor has it that being.
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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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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .
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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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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.
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That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
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A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy. The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'leela'. Leela means god's play.
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At the center we are one. At the periphery of existence we appear to be separate. And to know the truth of your being is to know the whole.
- Osho
Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.
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Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
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To fight with the mind is to give it reality, to recognize its power. There is no need to fight. One has just to be a witness. Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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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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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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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
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Every man, every woman is born with a bird in the heart. The heart has wings, but the heart can open its wings only in the sky if silence.
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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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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
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God is No Where, Life in Now Here.
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The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.
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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
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
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Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center.
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Everything borrowed is ugly. Beliefs are borrowed, hence they are ugly. And when you live according to borrowed beliefs you create chaos in the world.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
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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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The real religious man has to contribute to the world. He has to make it a little more beautiful than he found it when he came into the world.
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Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
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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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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
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It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
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The mirror mirrors things, but mirroring is not an activity. It is just the nature of the mirror, that whatever comes before it is reflected.
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
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A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response.
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.
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Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
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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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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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The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simple.
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Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.
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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.
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Western man is missing the flowering of life because he knows nothing about meditation, and Eastern man is missing because he knows nothing of love.
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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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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
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That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.
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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.
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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
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First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin.
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.
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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.
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Meditation is purest blissfulness. As you go deeper, you come across more and more beautiful spaces, more and more luminous spots. They are your treasure.
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I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.
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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.
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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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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
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Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.
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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.
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Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before.
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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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The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.
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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.
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Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
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Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
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Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.
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In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears.
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
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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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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.
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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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Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence.
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I have called the New Man ZORBA THE BUDDHA. Zorba represents the materialist, objective approach. Buddha represents the subjective, spiritual approach. Divided, both are poor. Neither of them is a full circle. Joined, they become immensely rich. Joined together, they experience the greatest ecstasy that is available to humanity.
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God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
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Take life as easily as possible. But people don't understand me. I say to them, Life is a mystery. It is not to be solved but to be lived. And somebody has asked me, Osho, when you said that, I heard, Life is a MISERY, not to be solved but to be lived. That is up to you. To me it is a mystery, not to be solved but to be lived, but you can hear it as misery.
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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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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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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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Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
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Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality'. Totality will give you a different dimension.
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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.
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Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.
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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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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
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To be frank with you - which usually I am not - I don't know who I am. Knowledge is not possible here where I am. Only the knower is left, the known has disappeared; only the container is left, the content is no more.
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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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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.
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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.
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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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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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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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Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key.
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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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The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.
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A New Man who will not hate life, as in the past it has done; a new man who will love life; a new man who will not be negative in any way, but will be affirmative; a new man who will not desire life after death, but will live moment to moment in sheer joy—who will think of this life as a gift and not as a punishment; who will not be antagonistic to the body, who will respect the body as the temple of the soul; who will love, and who will not be afraid of love; who will move in all kinds of relationships and yet be able to remain himself.
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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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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.
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Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
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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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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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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.
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There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you: it is always in tune with your heart and in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
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It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
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All that is great is going to happen to you-- not by your effort, but by your relaxed openness, availability. Just keep your doors open.
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To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.
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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
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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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Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once you attain to the meditative state.
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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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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being - where you already are.
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Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.
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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
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The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.
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Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
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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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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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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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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
- Osho
A single insight into yourself is more valuable than all your scriptures. A single glimpse of your consciousness and you has entered the real temple.
- Osho
Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.
- Osho
My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.
- 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
Life is for those who know how to celebrate.
- Osho
Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.
- 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
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
- Osho
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
I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.
- Osho
Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
- Osho
Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
- Osho
Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.
- Osho
When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.
- Osho
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
- Osho
Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.
- Osho
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
- Osho
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
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
- Osho
There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.
- Osho
My Message is very Simple. Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God.
- Osho
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
Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
- Osho
The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
- Osho
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
- Osho
Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.
- Osho
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
- Osho
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
- Osho
Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.
- Osho
To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
- Osho
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
- Osho
Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.
- Osho
Love has to be discovered — it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the river disappears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean — it becomes the ocean.
- Osho
Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.
- Osho
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
- Osho
Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
- Osho
Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
- Osho
Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.
- Osho
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higer levels.
- Osho
My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.
- Osho
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
Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.
- Osho
why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. it is so absurd. it is so ridiculous. it is so beautiful, so wonderful! it is all sorts of things together. it is a great cosmic joke. Laughter is the real religion. Everthing else is just metaphysics.
- Osho
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
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
- 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
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
When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.
- 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
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
My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.
- Osho
Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
- 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
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
Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.
- Osho
Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.
- Osho
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
- Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- Osho
Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
- Osho
Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.
- Osho
Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
- Osho
I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.
- Osho
The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
- 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
My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
- Osho
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
- Osho
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
- Osho
The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.
- Osho
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
- Osho
Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.
- Osho
A religious person is a desireless person.
- 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
Whatsoever you do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.
- Osho
Life begins where fear ends.
- Osho
If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be religious.
- Osho
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
- Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.
- 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
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
Be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you.
- Osho
If a person remains blissful in ordinary day-to-day life, doing small things but blissfully, then prayer is spread all over his life.
- Osho
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
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
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
- Osho
When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
- Osho
If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.
- 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
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
- Osho
Truth can only arise within you. Nobody else gives it to you and with truth comes beauty, followed by good.
- Osho
There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.
- Osho
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
- Osho
Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.
- Osho
My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.
- Osho
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
- Osho
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
- Osho
You cannot destroy inner emptiness. It is your very being. You can cover it with things, but sooner or later you will have to encounter it. And it is better if you encounter it sooner.
- Osho
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.
- Osho
Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.
- Osho
If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.
- Osho
Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.
- Osho
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
- Osho
Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.
- Osho
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
- 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
If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.
- 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
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
- 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
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
- Osho
Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
- Osho
Celebration is the very nature of existence.
- 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
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
I am not here to make you a sheep. You have been a sheep for too long already. I am here to make a man out of you. It is going to be arduous, but you have to start becoming responsible for your own life. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing, because then there is no point in wasting time in postponing, in waiting. Nobody is coming to help you. All waiting is futile, all waiting is sheer wastage.
- Osho
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
To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help divine to be manifested in some form is creativity.
- Osho
Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.
- Osho
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
- 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
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
The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.
- Osho
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
- Osho
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
- 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
There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music.
- Osho
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
- Osho
Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.
- Osho
It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.
- 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
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.
- 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
Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.
- Osho
you cannot be anybody else than yourself. That is authentic religiousness Every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.
- Osho
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
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.
- Osho
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
- Osho
Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
- Osho
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
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
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
Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.
- Osho
If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
- Osho
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
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
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
- Osho
I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.
- Osho
Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.
- 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
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
- Osho
Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.
- Osho
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
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
- Osho
When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.
- Osho
Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.
- Osho
Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.
- Osho
To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
- Osho
Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
- 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
The real function of the Master is to give you encouragement. Just by his presence, his blissful life, peaceful life, creates a certain milieu in which you can move easily toward dropping your plannings, projects, and allowing existence to happen.
- Osho
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
- 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
A person who lives in the present – neither bothering about the past, nor bothering about the future – is fresh, young; he is neither a child nor an old man.
- Osho
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
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
- Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.
- 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
Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
- 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
I do not give you any discipline, any philosophy. I simply help you to bring out your own consciousness into a state of flowering.
- Osho
Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
- Osho
Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.
- Osho
I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me.
- Osho
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
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
- 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
The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.
- Osho
A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.
- Osho
My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.
- Osho
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
- Osho
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
- Osho
Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.
- Osho
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
- Osho
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
- Osho
Your trust in the total opens all your sensitivities to their extreme. This whole existence becomes a sheer dance, a sheer celebration.
- Osho
Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.
- Osho
A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.
- Osho
I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.
- 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
I have no wish to placate you with false, hollow and worthless words exhorting you to love mankind. The so-called religions have said these things to you for generations. I am here to urge you to love real men, to love your fellow beings - not mankind but the men who live and work around you. Humanity is just a word; mankind is just a label. You cannot find humanity or mankind anywhere. And so humanity is easy to love because the only thing you have to do is mouth a few platitudes.
- Osho
An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed.
- Osho
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
Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
- Osho
In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
- Osho
The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.
- Osho
There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. Into a superman. The superman is needed very much, urgently, because only the superman can prevent this beautiful planet from being destroyed by pygmy politicians, by ugly religions. All these vested interests are going to destroy the most beautiful planet in the universe. You can do only one thing to save it, and that is to become a Buddha and spread your Buddhahood - share it.
- Osho
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
- Osho
Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
- Osho
I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
- Osho
I am not doing any serious work. I am not doing work at all; it is my joy to share with you. Now, what you do with it is your problem, not mine.
- Osho
If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.
- Osho
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
- Osho
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
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
- Osho
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
- 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
Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.
- 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
Don't try to understand life, Live it! Don't try to understand love, Move into love. Then you will know.
- 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(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
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- Osho
Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone.
- Osho
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 comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.
- Osho
Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.
- 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
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 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
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
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
- Osho
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
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
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
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
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.
- Osho
Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.
- Osho
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
- Osho
I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.
- Osho
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
- 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 first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.
- Osho
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
- Osho
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.
- 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
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
- Osho
There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.
- 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
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- 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
Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
- Osho
Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.
- Osho
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
- 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
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
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
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
- Osho
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
- Osho
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
- Osho
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….
- Osho
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
Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
- Osho
The poison can become medicinal - you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous - if you dint know how to use it.
- Osho
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
- Osho
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Osho
Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
- Osho
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
- Osho
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation.
- Osho
I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.
- Osho
If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.
- 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
If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
- Osho
The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
- 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
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
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
If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-min. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond.
- Osho
You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
- 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
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
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
- Osho
Once you know meditation, you don’t have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path.
- Osho
Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.
- 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
Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom.
- Osho
Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.
- Osho
One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
- 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
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
- Osho
To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.
- Osho
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
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
Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.
- Osho
When you live at the optimum, then you know what life is. And then you know the celebration of it and the benediction of it.
- Osho
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
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
Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.
- 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
The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.
- Osho
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
- 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
To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.
- Osho
Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.
- Osho
Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.
- Osho
Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.
- Osho
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
To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
- Osho
My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.
- Osho
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
This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.
- Osho
I am a natural person. I have no charisma, and I don’t believe in charisma. I don’t believe in methods - even if I use them, I don’t believe in them. I am a natural person, very ordinary. I can be lost in a crowd and you will not be able to find me. I don’t lead you, I accompany you.
- Osho
A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
- Osho
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
The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
- Osho
We need a world - a new man, a new woman, a new child, who has intelligence. Not to imitate, not to deceive, but to stand on his own with power and integrity. Even if it means that he will be condemned by the whole world, it does not matter. What ultimately matters is that you have your own face.
- Osho
When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
- 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
Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
- Osho
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
- Osho
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
- Osho
If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.
- Osho
All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.
- 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
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
- Osho
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
- Osho
When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
- Osho
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
Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.
- Osho
We come alone into this world, we go alone.
- Osho
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
- Osho
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
- Osho
I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.
- Osho
you needs inner light, a light which has its source in your very being, a light which cannot be extinguished even by death, a light which is eternal.
- Osho
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
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
- Osho
When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God reflects. Then all chaos disappears, all questions disappear.
- Osho
Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.
- 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
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- Osho
A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.
- Osho
Remember, meditation is not something that is done by the mind, it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops, meditation happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond the mind.
- Osho
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
First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.
- Osho
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.
- 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
Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
- 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
Why limit yourself to small things! When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic!
- Osho
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
- Osho
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
When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.
- Osho
My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.
- Osho
Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.
- Osho
he person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
- Osho
If you enter heaven because other forced you to act according to certain precepts, certain commandments, you will regret even in heaven.
- 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
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
- Osho
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
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.
- Osho
A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.
- Osho
Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.
- Osho
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
Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.
- Osho
Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it!
- Osho
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
Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lover, silence is enough language. without saying anything, they go on speaking.
- Osho
Truth is not somewhere in the future. It is not goal but the source. You are coming from truth. Of you can find the source again you will know what truth in.
- Osho
Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.
- Osho
Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.
- Osho
Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.
- 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
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
- Osho
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
- Osho
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
- Osho
Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
- Osho
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
- Osho
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
A real prayer arises out of gratitude, never out of fear and greed. A real prayer arises out of love for truth.
- Osho
Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
- 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
Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!
- Osho
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
- Osho
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
- Osho
Every man has the potential to become enlightened. If he does not become, he is responsible — nobody else is responsible for it.
- Osho
Each moment is an end unto itself. Enjoy It., die into it, disappear into it, and then something miraculous happens: great eternal life descends in you.
- Osho
Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.
- Osho
When there is no desire there is no past, no future. When there is no desire you are utterly contented here now. And to be contented here now is joy.
- Osho
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
- Osho

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Be my Disciples but not my Followers

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You are not individuals, you are only persons, personalities

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Uniqueness is religious, specialness is political

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on Trusting oneself and Stop doing Imitation

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Anything that becomes an imprisonment is Wrong

Question : I am aware of a dichotomy within me: when i am near you, i am drawn towards you and am conscious of being a thirsty seeker. When i am away from the ashram i just have a good time and feel deliciously unholy. Is something wrong? No...

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Religio is individual, religion is organized.

Question 3 : Osho, Could Religio be termed as Neo-Education? Please comment. No, because education is something very ordinary. Religio will remain religio. It cannot be replaced by another word, for the simple reason that it has multidimensi...

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Imitation will make you very stupid, unintelligent

Question 4: Cannot people learn by Imitating others? Ramakrishna, That’s how people learn, but that s how people remain stupid. too. The only way practiced hitherto is that of imitating others. That makes you knowledgeable but it does not ma...

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Risks should be one of the basic foundations of a real man

Question : Osho, You are an ever-changing, unpredictable Master — How can we be your contemporary fellow travelers? In the same way! Be unpredictable and be ever-changing. Never stop changing and never stop being unpredictable, and only then...

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I teach you to live herenow with no idea of the future at all.

Question : Many see the work that goes on around you as a model for the holistic approach to life. Please talk about this. Krishna Prem, the old man is dying. And it is good news that the old man is on his deathbed, because the new can be bo...

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on Being Oneself : How can I be Myself?

Question : Osho, How can I be myself? That should be the easiest thing in the world, but it is not. To be oneself one need not do anything; one already is. How can you be otherwise? How can you be anybody else? But I can understand the probl...

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Individuality is intrinsically rebellious

Question 4 Osho, I have never been near so much authentic laughter as i have here in your presence. as i make myself available to the laughter happening around me, i notice myself withdraw and become serious. inside i long to let go and to b...

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Self-respect and Pride are simply natural to your individuality

Question 3 Osho, What is the difference between self-respect and pride? Indradhanu, there is no difference between self-respect and pride. There is a difference between the ego and self-respect or pride. Self-respect and pride are simply nat...

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Can you tell us more about the essential?

Question 1: Osho, Can you tell us more about the essential? Man is also a seed, a possibility, a potential, a hop, a promise. But the seed is not yet the flower. In essence it has the capacity of millions of flowers, but not in reality. Thos...

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One has to learn to respect oneself

The message is to never think about yourself in any way which condemns. One has to learn to respect oneself; that is the beginning of a great change. We have been taught to condemn, to despise, to hate. We have been told to love others but w...

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Agreeing with someone else is a psychological slavery.

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

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My responsibility is towards my heart, not towards anybody else in the world.

Everybody in the world wants to be true, because just to be true brings so much joy and such an abundance of blissfulness — why should one be false? You have to have the courage for a little deeper insight: Why are you afraid? What can the w...

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Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone

The greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it is going deeper into your aloneness. And man is caught up in such a way that he becomes accustomed to ...

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Why am I scared to accept myself the way i am?

Question 1: Osho, Why am I scared to accept myself the way i am? Kalyan Mitto, everybody is in the same situation. Everybody is scared to accept himself the way he is. This is how all the past centuries of mankind have cultivated, conditione...

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What is ambition?

Question 2: Osho, What is ambition? To live without ambition seems frightening, like starting a new life up from the beginning. Latifa, Ambition is the greatest poison there is. It brings all other poisons in: greed, violence, competitivenes...

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A religious man is one who is sincere to his inner nature

Once you become interested in what others say about you, each new act of yours will be a failure. Here it may succeed but this success is absolutely useless because you are never fulfilled by it. You never flow through it. You never come to ...

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My message is for the individual, and I stand for absolute freedom, individuality

Question : Do you have any message for us in this new beginning? Just remember one thing: the sannyas movement has entered a critical stage. It is a good sign; it will bring maturity, strength, togetherness. What is to be remembered is that ...

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The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values

The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values; he lives blindly, not knowing why. His life force is unconscious of itself. Many men also live in the same way. They only look like men...

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Each of my Sannyasins is individual; that’s my message to them

[The visitor replies: I think they are; the sannyasins want to be copies of you.] That is their misunderstanding. If somebody wants to…. But I am continuously throwing them to themselves. And you need not be that way! Even if others are maki...

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If you can be ordinary, You are successful

Question : What is your view of being successful in ordinary life? - i am afraid you are against success! I AM NEITHER AGAINST ANYTHING NOR FOR ANYTHING. Whatsoever happens, happens. One need not choose — because with choice is misery. If yo...

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Why am i always afraid of other’s opinion?

Question : Why am i always afraid of other’s opinion? Because you are not, because you are not yet. You are nothing but a piled-up phenomenon of others’ opinion. Who are you? Somebody says you are beautiful, so you are beautiful. And somebod...

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My message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

The word ’nija’ has many meanings: one is self, another is individual.When a person is just his own self, when a person has an individuality – when a person lives his way, in his own way, lives his life in his own way, when a person doesn’t ...

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When personality disappears, individuality appears

Man remains a beggar unless he knows what the truth is. And the truth is only one. It is neither mine nor yours; it does not belong to anybody, to any religion, to any ideology, to any church, to any country, to any time. It is eternal, it i...

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Even after enlightenment the uniqueness of the individual remains intact

Question : If Krishnamurti is enlightened he must see what you are saying himself, right? So why doesn’t he just come here and find himself a chair and a case of cold sodas and lean back and forget all that? He sees what I am saying and I se...

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on individuality and ego - Individuality means your uniqueness

Question : Where do individuality and ego separate? Individuality means your uniqueness — not compared with anybody else. Your incomparable uniqueness: that is individuality. Individuality is beautiful; that’s how God has made you — as an in...

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on Loving Oneself and Growth

Anand Narayani. Anand means bliss; Narayani means a goddess -- a goddess of bliss. That's what we are meant to be -- gods and goddesses of bliss. And if we are not it is simply because of our own foolishness; it is simply because of our own ...

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The real individual cannot promise

Deva means divine, aruno means the rising sun — the rising sun of divinity. And that1s what sannyas is all about. The sun has always been there, just very close to the horizon, but we have not allowed it to come up, we have not helped it to ...

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When i die, does my individuality remain?

Question 7 : 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 soci...

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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another

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

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To decide means to take risks

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

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on Personality and Individuality – Don’t cling to Personality

Question 2 : Beloved Osho, Is It really worth putting any energy into improving my personality? Anand Tarika, have you ever heard me? I have been constantly telling you that the personality has to be dropped so that your individuality can be...

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The only secret worth learning in life is the Secret of being in Harmony with oneself

The only secret worth learning in life is the secret of being in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the existence itself. Ordinarily people are constantly in conflict; they are in conflict with existence, with others, and with thems...

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What does it mean to Love Myself?

Question : Osho, What does it mean to Love Myself? Prem Kabir, one has to begin not by loving oneself, because you don’t know who you are. Who are you going to love? If you start by loving yourself, you will love only your ego, which is not ...

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Never reduce anybody to being just a sexual object

The whole thing seems to be either money or sex. And everybody seems to be reducing life to be just a whorehouse. All sacredness of life is damaged. And then it is natural that if you have a heart which is waiting for love you will remain un...

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How can I be nothing and unique?

Question : How can I be nothing and unique? You can be unique only when you are nothing. If you are something, you are comparable. If you are somebody you can be compared with others, and that which can be compared cannot be unique. Unique m...

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The most important thing in life is to discover your truth

Bliss is a rebellion and also a victory. It is a rebellion against the stupid society in which we are brought up, against the dull and dead tradition that has been imposed upon us. All kinds of ideologies, philosophies, theologies, have been...

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God never repeats. He never sends carbon copies to the world.

This is exactly the situation of humanity: everybody, almost everybody, is on the wrong train! Hence there is so much misery. Misery simply indicates that you are not where you are supposed to be, that you are not moving towards your own des...

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on Compromise – I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Question 4: Beloved Osho, Why do I always Compromise? One compromises because one is not certain about one’s truth, one is not certain about one’s own experience. The moment you have experienced something, it is impossible to compromise. The...

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Just be yourself, ordinary and unique, and fulfill your destiny

Tao says, that when nobody knows what to make of you – you are so ordinary that nobody knows what to make of you, nobody knows any utility for you, you cannot be used, you are so ordinary, without any talent – then, they say, the real myster...

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on Fear of Other’s Opinion – Never accept others’ opinions

Man lives in fear, that’s why he becomes hard. It is fear that creates hardness. In fear we close up; we close all doors and all windows. We start living in a very small, dark hole. Our life already becomes death. And we create an armor arou...

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I am not to make anything out of you

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

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on Accepting Challenge – 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 Accepting Challenge – 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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How can we Avoid being Authoritative?

Question : Osho, How can we avoid being Authoritative? It is very simple. The people who are authoritarian are the people who are suffering from an inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority they impose their superiority. They want to pr...

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Loneliness is darkness, impotence; aloneness is light, potence

Bliss needs great courage. Any courage can afford misery — that’s why there are so many miserable people. It costs nothing to be miserable, it is not a risk at all. It is very convenient to be miserable; in fact, comfortable to be miserable....

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Imitation is a substitute for understanding, and a very poor substitute

Question : Osho, I have fallen in love with chuang tzu, with joshu, with mumon, with bodhidharma. How can i not follow them? I feel already they have transformed me. How can i not be thankful? Let me tell you one anecdote first. When Rabbi N...

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Only the individual can become Enlightened

Question 2 Osho, I heard you saying that enlightenment is the transcendence of mind — conscious, unconscious, sub-conscious — and that one dissolves into the ocean of life, into the universe, into nothingness. I also hear you talking about t...

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The roots make you an individual, and the wings give you the freedom

Question 1 Beloved Osho, What are the roots and what are the winds of a meditators? Meditation is a way of settling in oneself, at the innermost core of your being. Once you have found the center of your existence, you will have found both t...

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Do not search for religion; search for yourself

12. Do not search for religion; search for yourself. Religion will then automatically come to you. Does religion exist in scriptures? No. Religion does not exist in scriptures. Scriptures are dead and religion is a living entity. Now can tha...

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Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? why do you call yourself God?

Question : Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? why do you call yourself God? Because I am, and because you are. And because only god is. There is no other way, there is no other way to be. You may know it, you may not know it. The only choice ...

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The crowd hates individuals - I love individuals

Question 3 : Beloved Osho, Although at the time i looked, felt, and behaved more like a mafia heavy than a meditator, you gave me the name, dhyan vipal. Over two years have passed since i took sannyas, and although some people still say i lo...

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Be my Disciples but not my Followers

You are not individuals, you are only persons, personalities

Uniqueness is religious, specialness is political

Uniqueness is religious, specialness is political

on Trusting oneself and Stop doing Imitation

Anything that becomes an imprisonment is Wrong

Religio is individual, religion is organized.

Imitation will make you very stupid, unintelligent

Risks should be one of the basic foundations of a real man

I teach you to live herenow with no idea of the future at all.

on Being Oneself : How can I be Myself?

Individuality is intrinsically rebellious

Self-respect and Pride are simply natural to your individuality

Can you tell us more about the essential?

One has to learn to respect oneself

Agreeing with someone else is a psychological slavery.

My responsibility is towards my heart, not towards anybody else in the world.

Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone

Why am I scared to accept myself the way i am?

What is ambition?

A religious man is one who is sincere to his inner nature

My message is for the individual, and I stand for absolute freedom, individuality

The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values

Each of my Sannyasins is individual; that’s my message to them

If you can be ordinary, You are successful

Why am i always afraid of other’s opinion?

My message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

When personality disappears, individuality appears

Even after enlightenment the uniqueness of the individual remains intact

on individuality and ego - Individuality means your uniqueness

on Loving Oneself and Growth

The real individual cannot promise

When i die, does my individuality remain?

No one can achieve one's individuality by following another

To decide means to take risks

on Personality and Individuality – Don’t cling to Personality

The only secret worth learning in life is the Secret of being in Harmony with oneself

What does it mean to Love Myself?

Never reduce anybody to being just a sexual object

How can I be nothing and unique?

The most important thing in life is to discover your truth

God never repeats. He never sends carbon copies to the world.

on Compromise – I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Just be yourself, ordinary and unique, and fulfill your destiny

on Fear of Other’s Opinion – Never accept others’ opinions

I am not to make anything out of you

on Accepting Challenge – In accepting the very challenge, one becomes a human being

on Accepting Challenge – In accepting the very challenge, one becomes a human being

How can we Avoid being Authoritative?

Loneliness is darkness, impotence; aloneness is light, potence

Imitation is a substitute for understanding, and a very poor substitute

Only the individual can become Enlightened

The roots make you an individual, and the wings give you the freedom

Do not search for religion; search for yourself

Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? why do you call yourself God?

The crowd hates individuals - I love individuals

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