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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.- Osho
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.- Osho
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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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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- Osho
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The world is a garland of millions of flowers, but running through all those flowers is a thread that keeps it together: that thread is love.- Osho
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Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.- 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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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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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.- 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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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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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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Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.- Osho
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In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.- 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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Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed — and that you are, you already are.- 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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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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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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Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.- Osho
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.- Osho
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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.- 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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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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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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God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.- Osho
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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- Osho
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- Osho
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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.- 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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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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You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.- 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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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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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- Osho
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Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.- Osho
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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- Osho
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When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.- Osho
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- 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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The real function of the Master is to give you encouragement. Just by his presence, his blissful life, peaceful life, creates a certain milieu in which you can move easily toward dropping your plannings, projects, and allowing existence to happen.- Osho
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.- 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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You are too much identified with the false, the personality.- 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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A real religious man is one who has no past, who has no autobiography, who is continuously new, each moment slipping with GOD. He does not bother – what has happened, has happened – finished! Put a full stop it, and never look back. Go on...he is always calling you ahead, and ahead. He is always persuading you to move into new territories of being: from lust to love, from love to prayer - and there are higher realms than prayer. And he is constantly on the move. If you follow him, the only way is to be constantly on the move. Be a river.- Osho
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The 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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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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If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness.- Osho
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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.- 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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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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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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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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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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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.- Osho
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To me, this is religion - enjoying the air, enjoying the sea, enjoying the sand, enjoying the sun—because there is no other god than existence itself. Zorba the Buddha, on the one hand, is the end of the old man—his religions, his politics, his nations, his racial discriminations, and all kinds of stupidities. On the other hand, zorba the Buddha is the beginning of a new man—a man totally free to be himself, allowing his nature to blossom. There is no conflict Zorba and Buddha. The conflict been created by the so-called religions.- Osho
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Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with “that which is” is the truth.- Osho
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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- 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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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?- Osho
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To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.- 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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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.- 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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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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A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality.- Osho
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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.- Osho
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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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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- Osho
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.- Osho
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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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Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.- Osho
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Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.- 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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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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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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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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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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If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.- Osho
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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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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.- 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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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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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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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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The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.- Osho
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.- Osho
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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.- Osho
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- Osho
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A religious person is a desireless person.- 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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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.- Osho
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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.- Osho
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Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.- Osho
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.- Osho
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Truth is to be lived, not understood.- 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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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.- Osho
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To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.- Osho
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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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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.- Osho
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My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.- Osho
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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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When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, I am the watcher, I am not sadness.- Osho
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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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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. Into a superman. The superman is needed very much, urgently, because only the superman can prevent this beautiful planet from being destroyed by pygmy politicians, by ugly religions. All these vested interests are going to destroy the most beautiful planet in the universe. You can do only one thing to save it, and that is to become a Buddha and spread your Buddhahood - share it.- Osho
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- 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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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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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.- Osho
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.- 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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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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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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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.- Osho
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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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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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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.- 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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If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.- Osho
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God is No Where, Life in Now Here.- Osho
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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.- Osho
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Man is always exploited through fear.- 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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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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You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.- Osho
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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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The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.- 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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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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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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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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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.- Osho
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When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.- Osho
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .- 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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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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Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.- Osho
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- 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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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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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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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.- Osho
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Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.- 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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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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you needs inner light, a light which has its source in your very being, a light which cannot be extinguished even by death, a light which is eternal.- Osho
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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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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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Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.- 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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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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You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.- Osho
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- Osho
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I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.- 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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he person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.- Osho
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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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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.- Osho
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- Osho
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.- Osho
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All that is great is going to happen to you-- not by your effort, but by your relaxed openness, availability. Just keep your doors open.- Osho
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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.- 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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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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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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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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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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These are the only two real emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.- Osho
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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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The only quality that buddha has is pure awareness, consciousness, witnessing. Witnessing is a key word for all meditators. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness.- Osho
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Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.- Osho
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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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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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you cannot be anybody else than yourself. That is authentic religiousness Every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.- Osho
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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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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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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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Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.- 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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Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.- Osho
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We need a world - a new man, a new woman, a new child, who has intelligence. Not to imitate, not to deceive, but to stand on his own with power and integrity. Even if it means that he will be condemned by the whole world, it does not matter. What ultimately matters is that you have your own face.- Osho
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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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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.- 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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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.- 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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Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms, love is a mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new.- Osho
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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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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- Osho
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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.- Osho
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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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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- 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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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- 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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A real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he does not depend on anybody else.- Osho
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Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.- Osho
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.- Osho
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Take life as easily as possible. But people don't understand me. I say to them, Life is a mystery. It is not to be solved but to be lived. And somebody has asked me, Osho, when you said that, I heard, Life is a MISERY, not to be solved but to be lived. That is up to you. To me it is a mystery, not to be solved but to be lived, but you can hear it as misery.- Osho
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The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.- Osho
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- 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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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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Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.- Osho
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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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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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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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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.- 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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Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.- Osho
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.- 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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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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I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.- Osho
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I am not here to make you a sheep. You have been a sheep for too long already. I am here to make a man out of you. It is going to be arduous, but you have to start becoming responsible for your own life. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing, because then there is no point in wasting time in postponing, in waiting. Nobody is coming to help you. All waiting is futile, all waiting is sheer wastage.- Osho
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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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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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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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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.- 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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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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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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Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.- Osho
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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- Osho
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The new man will live out of meditation, out of consciousness, out of his own inner light. The new man will be an individual.- Osho
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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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Remember, meditation is not something that is done by the mind, it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops, meditation happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond the mind.- Osho
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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.- Osho
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Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.- Osho
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I am a natural person. I have no charisma, and I don’t believe in charisma. I don’t believe in methods - even if I use them, I don’t believe in them. I am a natural person, very ordinary. I can be lost in a crowd and you will not be able to find me. I don’t lead you, I accompany you.- Osho
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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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Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.- 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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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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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.- Osho
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If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.- Osho
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If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.- 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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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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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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When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.- Osho
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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.- Osho
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I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.- Osho
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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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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.- 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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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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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.- Osho
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.- 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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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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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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Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.- Osho
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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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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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Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.- Osho
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.- 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 get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- Osho
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.- Osho
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.- Osho
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Oneness is the key.- Osho
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We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.- Osho
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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.- Osho
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Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.- Osho
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Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.- Osho
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Truth can whisper its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is purity.- Osho
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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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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.- Osho
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.- 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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My whole effort is to make your morality spontaneous. You should be conscious and alert, and respond to every situation with absolute consciousness. Then whatever you do is right. It is not a question of actions being right or wrong, it is a question of consciousness - whether you are doing it consciously or unconsciously like a robot.- Osho
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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.- 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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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.- 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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Be herenow… just this moment.- 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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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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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.- Osho
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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.- 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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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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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.- Osho
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Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.- 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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A woman is to be loved, not understood.- 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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Love equalizes people. You give because you love, you give because you respect. You give and allow the man to feel, to be honored, that is true giving.- Osho
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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 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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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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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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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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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.- 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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The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.- Osho
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Life is for those who know how to celebrate.- Osho
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Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.- Osho
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God is without purpose. The sky exists without purpose. Flowers bloom without purpose and stars shine without purpose. What happens to poor man that he cannot live without purpose?- Osho
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Life is in understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love and joy.- Osho
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Be - 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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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.- Osho
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.- 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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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.- 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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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.- Osho
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My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.- 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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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.- Osho
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You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.- 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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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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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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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.- 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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Be – don’t try to become.- 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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Only idiots are not controversial.- 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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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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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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We come alone into this world, we go alone.- 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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A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.- Osho
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The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.- Osho
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A real prayer arises out of gratitude, never out of fear and greed. A real prayer arises out of love for truth.- Osho
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I don't want anybody to cling to me, to be attached to me in any way. My whole effort is to give you total freedom, and methods so that whatever you want, you can create it within yourself. Not even God is needed, nothing is needed ― you are enough unto yourself.- Osho
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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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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- 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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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.- 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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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- 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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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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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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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.- 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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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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Just as water flows downwards towards the ocean, beauty, truth, love — all that is valuable in existence — flows towards a person who is nobody.- 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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Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.- Osho
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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.- 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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Never ask for sympathy. Be happy and love will be flowing towards you. Love is the right coin; sympathy is the wrong coin. It looks like love, it is not love.- Osho
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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.- Osho
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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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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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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.- Osho
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When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.- Osho
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.- 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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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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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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If you are aware, you cannot be angry, because anger can exist only in a state of unawareness; that is a prerequisite for anger to exist.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.- 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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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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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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Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.- Osho
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The world is a good place because it gives you an opportunity to test your silence, your meditation your watchfulness. Be in the world but don’t be of it.- Osho
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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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Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.- Osho
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The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.- 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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Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.- 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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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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.- 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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Always remember that to be happy is to be religious; to be happy is to be virtuous; to be celebrating is to be prayerful.- Osho
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Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.- 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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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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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 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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If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.- Osho
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No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.- Osho
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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.- Osho
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There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music.- Osho
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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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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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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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My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.- Osho
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If you 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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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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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- 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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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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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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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.- Osho
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.- 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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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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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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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 courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- 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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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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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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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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Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.- Osho
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To see the beauty of the flower you need silence, not analysis; beauty can never be understood through analysis.- Osho
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.- Osho
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Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.- Osho
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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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There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.- 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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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- Osho
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The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.- Osho
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If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.- Osho
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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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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- 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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If a person remains blissful in ordinary day-to-day life, doing small things but blissfully, then prayer is spread all over his life.- Osho
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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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Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.- Osho
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Be 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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Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.- Osho
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Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.- Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.- Osho
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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.- Osho
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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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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- 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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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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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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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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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- 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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Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.- 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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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.- 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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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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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.- 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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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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Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.- Osho
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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.- 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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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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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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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.- Osho
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Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.- Osho
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The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.- 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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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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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- 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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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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To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.- Osho
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, I cannot live spontaneously.- Osho
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The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.- Osho
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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.- 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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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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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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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.- Osho
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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- 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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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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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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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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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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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.- Osho
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.- 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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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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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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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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When one wants to come to oneself no path is needed because one is already there. Just recognition – and the revolution happen! Just a remembrance!- Osho
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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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I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.- Osho
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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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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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Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.- 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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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- Osho
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Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.- Osho
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You 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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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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I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.- Osho
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Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.- 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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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.- 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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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- 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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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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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.- 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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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.- Osho
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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.- 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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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.- 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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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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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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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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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.- Osho
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- Osho
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.- 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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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- 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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To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.- Osho
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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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Once you know meditation, you don’t have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path.- Osho
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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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The still point… There is a point within you where nothing ever moves – no movement from or to, no stirring, no sound created by any instrument. Nobody is there, just stillness, but that stillness is the dance and that stillness is the music.- Osho
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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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The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.- Osho
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.- 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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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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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- 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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I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.- 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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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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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 thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.- Osho
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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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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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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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Your absence is the presence of godliness.- 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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I have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.- 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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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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Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.- Osho
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I am not doing any serious work. I am not doing work at all; it is my joy to share with you. Now, what you do with it is your problem, not mine.- Osho
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Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.- Osho
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Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!- Osho
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- 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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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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Mind always creates duality.- Osho
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Every man, every woman is born with a bird in the heart. The heart has wings, but the heart can open its wings only in the sky if silence.- Osho
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- Osho
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Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.- Osho
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