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Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.- Osho
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- Osho
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Dancing is not just a movement. When a movement becomes ecstatic then it is dance. When the movement is so total that there is no ego, then it is a dance.- Osho
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You are too much identified with the false, the personality.- Osho
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.- Osho
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Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality'. Totality will give you a different dimension.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.- Osho
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I have no wish to placate you with false, hollow and worthless words exhorting you to love mankind. The so-called religions have said these things to you for generations. I am here to urge you to love real men, to love your fellow beings - not mankind but the men who live and work around you. Humanity is just a word; mankind is just a label. You cannot find humanity or mankind anywhere. And so humanity is easy to love because the only thing you have to do is mouth a few platitudes.- Osho
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Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lover, silence is enough language. without saying anything, they go on speaking.- Osho
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation.- Osho
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One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful. Nothing else is needed just the pulsation of life is enough.- Osho
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The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue.- Osho
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.- Osho
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My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.- Osho
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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
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The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.- Osho
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The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.- Osho
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Do meditation without thinking of any result, enjoy meditating as an end in itself. And then some day the light explodes, the ego disappears.- Osho
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Western man is missing the flowering of life because he knows nothing about meditation, and Eastern man is missing because he knows nothing of love.- Osho
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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.- Osho
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Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.- Osho
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Meditation is purest blissfulness. As you go deeper, you come across more and more beautiful spaces, more and more luminous spots. They are your treasure.- Osho
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With fear, hate, jealousy-anything whatsoever- don’t create a problem out of it. Accept it, allow it, pass through it, and you will defeat all suffering.- Osho
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It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.- Osho
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To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help divine to be manifested in some form is creativity.- Osho
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This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this; 'We come alone into this world, we go alone.' All togetherness is illusory.- Osho
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- Osho
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If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.- Osho
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Once 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.- Osho
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. The choice is yours. You can move from the mind to no-mind; the bridge is witnessing.- Osho
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I don’t give u any discipline, any morality. I simple give u a clarity of vision. Out of that clarity whatsoever comes is good, is divine, and is moral.- Osho
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When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss.- Osho
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- Osho
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Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.- Osho
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Be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you.- Osho
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All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.- Osho
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In Jainism forgiving carries great value, which I need to follow as it helps me to learn art of living, & I sincerely request you to forgive me if any of my.- Osho
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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.- Osho
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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
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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.- Osho
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.- Osho
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Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.- Osho
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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
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!- Osho
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A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.- Osho
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To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.- Osho
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My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.- Osho
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- Osho
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Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.- Osho
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Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.- Osho
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You are the temple and the master of the temple. You need not go anywhere. If you need go anywhere it is only inwards, into your own interiority.- Osho
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.- Osho
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- Osho
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The moment you experience your own being, you have experienced the being of this whole universe because your heartbeat is part of the heartbeat of the universe.- Osho
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You are right now at the very source, and you have never left it for a single moment. Just recognize it, just open your eyes and see it!- Osho
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Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.- Osho
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Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.- Osho
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.- Osho
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.- Osho
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If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.- Osho
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- Osho
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation- Osho
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Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.- Osho
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.- Osho
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Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.- Osho
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My function is very different from the function of Gautam Buddha. His function is only a small part of my philosophy. I want individuals to become enlightened, but I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people. They may not become enlightened, but at least become conscious enough so that nations disappear, religions disappear, races disappear, and we can live as one humanity, as one earth.- Osho
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First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin.- Osho
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There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.- Osho
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Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.- Osho
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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.- Osho
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Live the day and live the night too. Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits together and makes it a piece of art.- Osho
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When you are utterly present in this moment, when you don't have any past and don't have any future ... when this cuckoo calling, this train passing, this dog barking, is all ... when THIS is all and there is no that, when the word 'here' is your whole reality and there is no 'there', when now contains all time and there is no then ... then you are in the state of samasati.- Osho
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Never ask, Who is my real friend? Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody? That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.- Osho
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When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.- Osho
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When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.- Osho
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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.- Osho
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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.- Osho
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Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.- Osho
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My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.- Osho
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There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.- Osho
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Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.- Osho
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.- Osho
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Rare is the person who transforms his life into a growth, who transforms his life into a long journey of self-actualization, who becomes what he was meant to be. In the East we have called that man the buddha.- Osho
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Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!- Osho
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.- Osho
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The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.- Osho
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Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.- Osho
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.- Osho
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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.- Osho
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I am not a psychoanalyst. I am not here to treat your minds and cure them. I am here to bring you out of your minds - healthy, unhealthy, neurotic, non-neurotic, it doesn't matter. I don't take any note of your mind, what kind of mind you have. Any kind of mind...you have to be taken out of it! So I don't go into the details, I simply start hammering!- Osho
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.- Osho
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The first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.- Osho
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Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.- Osho
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Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.- Osho
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Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.- Osho
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You be simply interested in your happiness, in your bless, and one day you will find godliness has entered in you. It is another name for ultimate bliss.- Osho
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If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.- Osho
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Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.- Osho
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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.- Osho
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.- Osho
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.- Osho
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Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.- Osho
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Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.- Osho
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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.- Osho
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To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.- Osho
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This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.- Osho
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.- Osho
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I do not give you any discipline, any philosophy. I simply help you to bring out your own consciousness into a state of flowering.- Osho
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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
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.- Osho
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The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.- Osho
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When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.- Osho
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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.- Osho
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The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.- Osho
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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.- Osho
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Start enjoying that which you are, and then this very ordinary life suddenly becomes extraordinary. Then these ordinary days have such tremendous poetry.- Osho
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Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.- Osho
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.- Osho
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.- Osho
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Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.- Osho
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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.- Osho
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The being is not a static thing waiting to be discovered by you. The being has to be created moment to moment. That is the only way to discover it.- Osho
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Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.- Osho
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Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.- Osho
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Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once you attain to the meditative state.- Osho
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I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.- Osho
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Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.- Osho
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If you enter heaven because other forced you to act according to certain precepts, certain commandments, you will regret even in heaven.- Osho
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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.- Osho
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A New Man who will not hate life, as in the past it has done; a new man who will love life; a new man who will not be negative in any way, but will be affirmative; a new man who will not desire life after death, but will live moment to moment in sheer joy—who will think of this life as a gift and not as a punishment; who will not be antagonistic to the body, who will respect the body as the temple of the soul; who will love, and who will not be afraid of love; who will move in all kinds of relationships and yet be able to remain himself.- Osho
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There is only one thing that can make you an emperor and that is your own being. Just find it.- Osho
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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.- Osho
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You create yourself moment to moment. You are mot born as a fixed entity, but only as an infinite. You are born as a seed, not as a tree.- Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.- Osho
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To be in tune, to be harmonious with the universe, is bliss is joy, is music, is poetry. You start blooming the moment you are in tune with the whole.- Osho
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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.- Osho
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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.- Osho
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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.- Osho
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.- Osho
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I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness- Osho
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Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.- Osho
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When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.- Osho
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.- Osho
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.- Osho
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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.- Osho
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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- Osho
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I have called the New Man ZORBA THE BUDDHA. Zorba represents the materialist, objective approach. Buddha represents the subjective, spiritual approach. Divided, both are poor. Neither of them is a full circle. Joined, they become immensely rich. Joined together, they experience the greatest ecstasy that is available to humanity.- Osho
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Truth can only arise within you. Nobody else gives it to you and with truth comes beauty, followed by good.- Osho
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Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.- Osho
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.- Osho
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.- Osho
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Mind always creates duality.- Osho
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.- Osho
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Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.- Osho
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response.- Osho
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Every man has the potential to become enlightened. If he does not become, he is responsible — nobody else is responsible for it.- Osho
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I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.- Osho
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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.- Osho
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.- Osho
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Power over others is ugly. It is inhuman, because to have power over somebody means to reduce the person to a thing. He becomes your possession.- Osho
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.- Osho
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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.- Osho
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.- Osho
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When there is no desire there is no past, no future. When there is no desire you are utterly contented here now. And to be contented here now is joy.- Osho
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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.- Osho
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You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.- Osho
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- Osho
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- Osho
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If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.- Osho
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A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody's help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you. Left alone ― utterly alone ― you are bound to find your innermost center.- Osho
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Only by knowing oneself does one become capable of knowing the ultimate, because at the very core of your being the ultimate is present.- Osho
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.- Osho
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My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.- Osho
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A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy. The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'leela'. Leela means god's play.- Osho
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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.- Osho
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Remember one thing: that you should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving.- Osho
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.- Osho
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Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.- Osho
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The one you are looking for is you.- Osho
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Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higer levels.- Osho
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Whatsoever you do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.- Osho
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Don't ask, Don't knock, Don't demand. Just Relax. if you relax, it comes. if you relax, it is there. if you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.- Osho
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Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.- Osho
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On the path nothing more is needed than Patience- Osho
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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- Osho
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- Osho
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.- Osho
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A person who lives in the present – neither bothering about the past, nor bothering about the future – is fresh, young; he is neither a child nor an old man.- Osho
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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.- Osho
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.- Osho
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.- Osho
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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- Osho
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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.- Osho
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A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.- Osho
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Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter.- Osho
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Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.- Osho
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A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.- Osho
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- Osho
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To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors.- Osho
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Witness is the highest growth of consciousness. There is nothing beyond it. To remain a witness, awake or asleep, is the whole process of meditation.- Osho
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.- Osho
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Unless you find your spontaneity, unless you find your element, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, you cannot be meditative.- Osho
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- Osho
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Remember it is a very fundamental law. You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you need. Somehow the universe goes on fulfilling your needs; you may understand, you may not understand.- Osho
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You are rich if you have tasted the nectar of your own consciousness. You are rich if you are capable of sharing your love unconditionally.- Osho
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My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.- Osho
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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- Osho
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.- Osho
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Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is agelessness.- Osho
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When you live at the optimum, then you know what life is. And then you know the celebration of it and the benediction of it.- Osho
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A woman is to be loved, not understood.- Osho
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Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.- Osho
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Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.- Osho
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I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.- Osho
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Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.- Osho
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The ocean is not far away. But your ego is a frozen block - it needs melting. Love melts it, fear makes it more frozen, trust melts it. All that the people who are trying to find themselves have to do, is remain melted and allow the river to move on its own. You should not be the guide. The river needs no guide. Its very nature is to reach to the ocean. It is not an effort, it is its intrinsic quality.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- Osho
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A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators.- Osho
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.- Osho
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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.- Osho
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Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.- Osho
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.- Osho
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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.- Osho
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Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.- Osho
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- Osho
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- Osho
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A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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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
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In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.- Osho
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The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.- Osho
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Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.- Osho
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So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.- Osho
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When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.- Osho
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- Osho
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Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.- Osho
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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.- Osho
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Don't try to understand life, Live it! Don't try to understand love, Move into love. Then you will know.- Osho
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If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.- Osho
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There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you: it is always in tune with your heart and in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.- Osho
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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.- Osho
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.- Osho
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Each moment is an end unto itself. Enjoy It., die into it, disappear into it, and then something miraculous happens: great eternal life descends in you.- Osho
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation.- Osho
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Only idiots are not controversial.- Osho
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Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong.- Osho
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.- Osho
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At the center we are one. At the periphery of existence we appear to be separate. And to know the truth of your being is to know the whole.- Osho
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Unless the truth is your own experience, whatever you believe about truth is only a belief. And all beliefs are lies, and all believers are blind.- Osho
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My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. Your whole life has to be colored by it.- Osho
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Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.- Osho
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Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.- Osho
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Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. You are your hell and your heaven too.- Osho
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Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.- Osho
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Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.- Osho
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.- Osho
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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.- Osho
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.- Osho
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- Osho
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I teach a new man, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world.[....] only with the death of the old can the new be born. The cessation of the old is the beginning of the new. My message to humanity is a new man.- Osho
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When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God reflects. Then all chaos disappears, all questions disappear.- Osho
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.- Osho
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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.- Osho
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The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.- Osho
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- Osho
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Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.- Osho
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It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.- Osho
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We come alone into this world, we go alone.- Osho
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Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.- Osho
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Your trust in the total opens all your sensitivities to their extreme. This whole existence becomes a sheer dance, a sheer celebration.- Osho
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Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.- Osho
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Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.- Osho
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Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.- Osho
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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.- Osho
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Life is for those who know how to celebrate.- Osho
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Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.- Osho
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Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.- Osho
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.- Osho
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.- Osho
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All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.- Osho
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I want every one of my sannyasins to be utterly unique.- Osho
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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.- Osho
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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.- Osho
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Life is our philosophy. Existence is our philosophy. To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion.- Osho
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A real religious man is one who has no past, who has no autobiography, who is continuously new, each moment slipping with GOD. He does not bother – what has happened, has happened – finished! Put a full stop it, and never look back. Go on...he is always calling you ahead, and ahead. He is always persuading you to move into new territories of being: from lust to love, from love to prayer - and there are higher realms than prayer. And he is constantly on the move. If you follow him, the only way is to be constantly on the move. Be a river.- Osho
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Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.- Osho
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Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.- Osho
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The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.- Osho
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Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.- Osho
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.- Osho
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- Osho
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?- Osho
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Being playful is one of the great secrets of inner transformation. Learn to be playful. If all seriousness disappears from your life, you are religious.- Osho
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Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.- Osho
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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.- Osho
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It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.- Osho
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Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.- Osho
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God is No Where, Life in Now Here.- Osho
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.- Osho
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The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.- Osho
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.- Osho
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The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simple.- Osho
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.- Osho
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.- Osho
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.- Osho
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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.- Osho
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Never speak of me in the past tense. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.- Osho
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!- Osho
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.- Osho
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.- Osho
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Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.- Osho
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I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.- Osho
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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.- Osho
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It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.- Osho
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I am not a messiah, and I am not a missionary. And I am not here to establish a church or to give a doctrine to the world, a new religion, no. My effort is totally different: a new consciousness not a new religion, a new consciousness not a new doctrine. Enough of doctrines and enough of religions! Man needs a new consciousness. And the only way to bring consciousness is to go on hammering from all the sides so that slowly slowly chunks of your mind go on dropping. The statue of a buddha is hidden in you. Right now you are a rock. If I go on hammering, cutting chunks out of you, slowly slowly the buddha will emerge. It takes time.- Osho
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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- Osho
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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.- Osho
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If you can fine our original man, you have found everything that this existence contains—the entire splendor, all the glory, all the ceremony, all the joy.- Osho
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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.- Osho
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The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.- Osho
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Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?- Osho
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Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence.- Osho
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Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.- Osho
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Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.- Osho
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My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.- Osho
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You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.- Osho
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Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.- Osho
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Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is in love.- Osho
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.- Osho
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Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it!- Osho
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To move on the path of meditation is to move on the path of life ... life's joys, life's songs, life's laughter. And take everything easy. Easy is right.- Osho
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Try to understand that existence consists of polar opposites. If you choose one side, your life will remain only half; and a half-life is a miserable life.- Osho
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.- Osho
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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.- Osho
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.- Osho
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One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.- Osho
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I am deliberately inconsistent, contradictory, so that you cannot make any body of knowledge out of me. So if one day you start gathering something, another day I take it away. I don't allow you to gather anything. Sooner or later, you are bound to be awakened to the fact that something totally different is transpiring here. It is not that I am giving you some dogma to be believed in, some philosophy to be lived by, no, not at all. I am utterly destructive, I am taking everything away from you.- Osho
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Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.- Osho
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Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.- Osho
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There are only ways of being here: one is in bondage, another is in freedom. Watchfulness takes you out of the prison and opens the doors of infinity.- Osho
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My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.- Osho
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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!- Osho
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Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.- Osho
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Wherever you are, reality is. You are part of reality and you exist only as an organic part to reality. You cannot go away. You cannot separate yourself.- Osho
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If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.- Osho
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Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.- Osho
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, I cannot live spontaneously.- Osho
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You cannot destroy inner emptiness. It is your very being. You can cover it with things, but sooner or later you will have to encounter it. And it is better if you encounter it sooner.- Osho
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The will to wholeness is inherent in everything, but only in man has it become conscious. Therefore man lives in tension, and only when this longing is fulfilled is his negative state of tension erased.- Osho
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Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being - where you already are.- Osho
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Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.- Osho
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I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life.- Osho
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God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.- Osho
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Prayer is meaningless if it is not out of alertness. And a man of alertness need not have any prayer – alertness is enough unto itself.- Osho
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I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.- Osho
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.- Osho
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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.- Osho
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It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.- Osho
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Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.- Osho
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One seed can make a whole earth green. One small sparkle of energy in you can fill the whole earth with dance, song, music.- Osho
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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
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why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. it is so absurd. it is so ridiculous. it is so beautiful, so wonderful! it is all sorts of things together. it is a great cosmic joke. Laughter is the real religion. Everthing else is just metaphysics.- Osho
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Everything borrowed is ugly. Beliefs are borrowed, hence they are ugly. And when you live according to borrowed beliefs you create chaos in the world.- Osho
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.- Osho
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Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.- Osho
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Witnessing is the greatest miracle in the world, because it takes you out of the circle of birth and death and gives you wings to fly into the eternal sky.- Osho
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.- Osho
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The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- Osho
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Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.- Osho
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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.- Osho
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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- Osho
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To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.- Osho
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I don’t want you to worship Buddha’s; I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love become it.- Osho
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The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.- Osho
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Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.- Osho
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Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.- Osho
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My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.- Osho
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.- Osho
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Love has to be discovered — it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the river disappears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean — it becomes the ocean.- Osho
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You are not filled with straw, you are filled with your own awareness. You are not filled with furniture, cars, houses, money, and other nonsense. You are just filled with your being, the sheer am-ness, the sheer existence.- Osho
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My whole life has been devoted to only one single program: how to bring love and meditation together - because only through that meeting a new humanity is possible. And only in the meeting of love and meditation, the duality of man and woman - the inequality of man and woman - disappears.- Osho
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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.- Osho
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No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.- Osho
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To live a life of truth, ever if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies.- Osho
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.- Osho
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Oneness is the key.- Osho
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Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.- Osho
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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.- Osho
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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.- Osho
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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.- Osho
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Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.- Osho
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This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These three experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity.- Osho
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.- Osho
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The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.- Osho
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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.- Osho
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Be herenow… just this moment.- Osho
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Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life.- Osho
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If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.- Osho
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Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!- Osho
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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
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Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.- Osho
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Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.- Osho
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Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key.- Osho
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Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.- Osho
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Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.- Osho
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To be frank with you - which usually I am not - I don't know who I am. Knowledge is not possible here where I am. Only the knower is left, the known has disappeared; only the container is left, the content is no more.- Osho
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Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.- Osho
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We are bringing a new approach in religion. You do not go away from the world, but rather go deeper into it and change it. This is more courageous.- Osho
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.- Osho
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- Osho
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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.- Osho
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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.- Osho
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Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.- Osho
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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.- Osho
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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- Osho
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We are not interested in going to paradise; We are interested in making the paradise come here.- Osho
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.- Osho
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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.- Osho
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The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.- Osho
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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.- Osho
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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.- Osho
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Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.- Osho
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.- Osho
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When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration.- Osho
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Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.- Osho
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Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.- Osho
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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.- Osho
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The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.- Osho
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Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.- Osho
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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.- Osho
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.- Osho
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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.- Osho
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Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.- Osho
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If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be religious.- Osho
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That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.- Osho
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- Osho
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There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.- Osho
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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.- Osho
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Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- Osho
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Be – don’t try to become.- Osho
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Love and freedom are two sides of the coin. It is one flower. And it can blossom only when both are allowed dignity and respect.- Osho
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It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.- Osho
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Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.- Osho
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.- Osho
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.- Osho
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These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle- Osho
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As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty.- Osho
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To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!- Osho
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Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.- Osho
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Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.- Osho
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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.- Osho
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence- Osho
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The lover is an emperor; the creator is an emperor – without invading the whole world. He has invaded the whole universe out of sheer loving creativity.- Osho
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.- Osho
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Meditation is something natural, something that is already hidden inside you and is trying to find its way to reach to the open sky, to the sun, to the air.- Osho
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Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.- Osho
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Whenever there is no conflict between you and the whole, not even a rumor of conflict, you are healthy. To be whole is to be healthy.- Osho
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.- Osho
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.- Osho
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To me, every day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nourishing, it is energy-giving, it is vitalizing.- Osho
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You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is.- Osho
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Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.- Osho
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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.- Osho
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You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.- Osho
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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.- Osho
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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- Osho
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Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.- Osho
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Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the centre, fear always comes from the periphery.- Osho
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A single insight into yourself is more valuable than all your scriptures. A single glimpse of your consciousness and you has entered the real temple.- Osho
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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.- Osho
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- Osho
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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- Osho
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There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.- Osho
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The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown,makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear.- Osho
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Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.- Osho
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Harmony is happiness, and harmony is heaven. And harmony happens only when you are in tune with the whole. To be with the whole is to be holy.- Osho
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The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.- Osho
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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.- Osho
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Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.- Osho
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Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.- Osho
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To fight with the mind is to give it reality, to recognize its power. There is no need to fight. One has just to be a witness. Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.- Osho
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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.- Osho
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The only revolution possible is through taking the whole responsibility on yourself: I am the cause of my suffering. Hence I can be the cause of my bliss.- Osho
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A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. He is on the Way, he is on Tao; and he IS becoming meditative.- Osho
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That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better. Why not just simply be? Why unnecessarily hurry here and there? You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.- Osho
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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.- Osho
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Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.- Osho
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Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.- Osho
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Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.- Osho
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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.- Osho
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If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-min. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond.- Osho
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It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.- Osho
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I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.- Osho
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Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.- Osho
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The real religious man has to contribute to the world. He has to make it a little more beautiful than he found it when he came into the world.- Osho
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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.- Osho
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By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.- Osho
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Man is always exploited through fear.- Osho
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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.- Osho
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Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.- Osho
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- Osho
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I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.- Osho
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.- Osho
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.- Osho
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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.- Osho
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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.- Osho
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All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.- Osho
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Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.- Osho
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Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.- Osho
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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.- Osho
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Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again.- Osho
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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.- Osho
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Always off with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation.- Osho
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The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.- Osho
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Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone.- Osho
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Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.- Osho
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.- Osho
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One has to live totally. Ones life torch has to burn from both ends – even though it is only for one single moment, but then that single moment is eternity.- Osho
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Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.- Osho
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The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.- Osho
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In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears.- Osho
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.- Osho
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Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.- Osho
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Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom.- Osho
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.- Osho
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Trust is the highest form of the same energy as doubt. Doubt is the lowest rung of the ladder, and trust is the highest rung of the same ladder. Use doubt, use it joyfully- Osho
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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.- Osho
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Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.- Osho
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Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence.- Osho
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- Osho
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The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven.- Osho
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Whenever you feel a problem look within your heart. If you are at ease, you are on the right path. Your heart is the criterion.- Osho
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If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.- Osho
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Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.- Osho
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.- Osho
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Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.- Osho
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My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.- Osho
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Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.- Osho
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Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.- Osho
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If you can really see a beautiful rose of a beautiful sunset with your totality there is no need of any other discipline to become a Buddha.- Osho
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You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life.- Osho
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I want you to be in the very center of existence, of your being. That is the only way to understand this tremendous mystery that surrounds you.- Osho
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I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….- Osho
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So when I say, Spread the word, I mean whatever I have been telling you, go on spreading in as many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that the word reaches to every nook and corner of the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death -- that is not power. But the word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring new life to you; it can give you rebirth, resurrection -- that is power.- Osho
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If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.- Osho
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The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.- Osho
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I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.- Osho
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My Message is very Simple. Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God.- Osho
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When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.- Osho
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The ego is the cancer of the inner, the cancer of the soul. And the only remedy - the only remedy I say - is meditation.- Osho
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.- Osho
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A moment of truth is more valuable than a hundred years of life, because a moment of truth makes you part of eternity.- Osho
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An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed.- Osho
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Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.- Osho
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Life is in understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love and joy.- Osho
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you can drop your miseries only when some inner meaning starts flowering in you. Miseries can be dropped only when meditation starts blooming in you.- Osho
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Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.- Osho
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Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen.- Osho
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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. This is the way existence wants you to be.- Osho
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If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.- Osho
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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.- Osho
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.- Osho
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If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.- Osho
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As you come to the center of your being you have found your original face. Your original face is the Buddha.- Osho
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- Osho
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Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before.- Osho
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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.- Osho
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Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.- Osho
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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.- Osho
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Truth is not somewhere in the future. It is not goal but the source. You are coming from truth. Of you can find the source again you will know what truth in.- Osho
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Consciousness plus thinking is Waking, Consciousness minus thinking is Samadhi, Unconsciousness plus thinking is Dreaming, Unconsciousness minus thinking is Sleep.- Osho
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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- Osho
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If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.- Osho
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