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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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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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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.- 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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Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.- 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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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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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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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.- 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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Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.- 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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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.- 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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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- Osho
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- 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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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- 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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Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality'. Totality will give you a different dimension.- Osho
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Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.- 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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If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.- Osho
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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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Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.- 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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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- 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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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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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- 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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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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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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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- 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 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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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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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- Osho
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If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.- 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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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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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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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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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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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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Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.- 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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The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.- 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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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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Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.- Osho
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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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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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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.- Osho
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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- 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 moment of truth is more valuable than a hundred years of life, because a moment of truth makes you part of eternity.- Osho
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Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.- Osho
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Man is always exploited through fear.- 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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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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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!- Osho
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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.- Osho
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The 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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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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Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.- 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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Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.- Osho
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A New Man who will not hate life, as in the past it has done; a new man who will love life; a new man who will not be negative in any way, but will be affirmative; a new man who will not desire life after death, but will live moment to moment in sheer joy—who will think of this life as a gift and not as a punishment; who will not be antagonistic to the body, who will respect the body as the temple of the soul; who will love, and who will not be afraid of love; who will move in all kinds of relationships and yet be able to remain himself.- Osho
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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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First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.- Osho
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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- Osho
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You are too much identified with the false, the personality.- 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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I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.- Osho
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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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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.- Osho
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I want to emphasize the point that if a man can have ninety years of physical age and thirteen years of mental age, the vice versa is also possible, and should be made possible. A thirteen-years-old boy can have the mind and mental age of a ninety years old man. And that will be the day of rejoicing, when your mental age is ahead of your physical age. That is the beginning of a superman, the beginning of the new man, a new humanity.- Osho
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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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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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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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A person who lives in the present – neither bothering about the past, nor bothering about the future – is fresh, young; he is neither a child nor an old man.- Osho
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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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The ocean is not far away. But your ego is a frozen block - it needs melting. Love melts it, fear makes it more frozen, trust melts it. All that the people who are trying to find themselves have to do, is remain melted and allow the river to move on its own. You should not be the guide. The river needs no guide. Its very nature is to reach to the ocean. It is not an effort, it is its intrinsic quality.- Osho
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Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.- 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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Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.- Osho
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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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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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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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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.- 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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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.- Osho
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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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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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Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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The will to wholeness is inherent in everything, but only in man has it become conscious. Therefore man lives in tension, and only when this longing is fulfilled is his negative state of tension erased.- Osho
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Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.- 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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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 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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You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.- Osho
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I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me.- Osho
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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.- 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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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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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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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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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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Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.- Osho
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Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.- Osho
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.- 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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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.- Osho
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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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Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.- 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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First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin.- Osho
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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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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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On the path nothing more is needed than Patience- 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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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.- Osho
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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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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.- 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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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.- 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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Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong.- Osho
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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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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.- Osho
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My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.- Osho
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Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.- Osho
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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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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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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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My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.- 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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I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life.- Osho
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Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence.- Osho
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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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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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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.- Osho
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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.- Osho
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The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.- 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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Unless the truth is your own experience, whatever you believe about truth is only a belief. And all beliefs are lies, and all believers are blind.- Osho
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Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.- 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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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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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.- 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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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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Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.- Osho
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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.- Osho
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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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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.- Osho
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When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.- Osho
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The 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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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.- Osho
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A woman is to be loved, not understood.- 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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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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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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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.- 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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Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again.- Osho
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Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.- Osho
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I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.- Osho
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Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.- Osho
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Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.- Osho
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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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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.- Osho
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.- 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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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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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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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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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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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.- 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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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.- 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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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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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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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 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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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- 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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If you can fine our original man, you have found everything that this existence contains—the entire splendor, all the glory, all the ceremony, all the joy.- Osho
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.- 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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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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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- Osho
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Life is for those who know how to celebrate.- 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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Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.- Osho
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By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.- Osho
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Be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you.- Osho
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A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.- Osho
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.- Osho
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.- Osho
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- 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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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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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 possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.- Osho
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A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.- 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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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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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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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.- 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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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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Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.- 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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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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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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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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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.- 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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Live the day and live the night too. Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits together and makes it a piece of art.- Osho
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- Osho
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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- Osho
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Your absence is the presence of godliness.- 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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If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.- 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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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?- Osho
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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.- 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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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.- 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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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.- 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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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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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.- Osho
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.- Osho
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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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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- Osho
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Reality has not to be invented, it has to be discovered. It is already there. Hence science discovers, and true religion also discovers.- 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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All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.- Osho
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The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven.- Osho
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- Osho
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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.- Osho
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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.- 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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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.- 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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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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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.- 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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Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.- Osho
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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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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.- 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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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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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.- Osho
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Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.- Osho
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Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.- Osho
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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. This is the way existence wants you to be.- Osho
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If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.- Osho
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Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.- 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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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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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.- 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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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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To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.- 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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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.- 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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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.- 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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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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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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Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.- Osho
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Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.- 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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I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.- 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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No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.- Osho
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We come alone into this world, we go alone.- 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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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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Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.- Osho
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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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If you are a parent you will need this much courage-not to interfere. Open doors of unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.- Osho
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I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody's help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you. Left alone ― utterly alone ― you are bound to find your innermost center.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- 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 only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- Osho
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The poison can become medicinal - you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous - if you dint know how to use it.- 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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Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.- Osho
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have no wish to placate you with false, hollow and worthless words exhorting you to love mankind. The so-called religions have said these things to you for generations. I am here to urge you to love real men, to love your fellow beings - not mankind but the men who live and work around you. Humanity is just a word; mankind is just a label. You cannot find humanity or mankind anywhere. And so humanity is easy to love because the only thing you have to do is mouth a few platitudes.- Osho
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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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Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.- Osho
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Life begins where fear ends.- 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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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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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.- Osho
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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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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.- 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 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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Never speak of me in the past tense. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.- Osho
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It is 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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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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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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Authentic religion does not need any god, does not need any priest, and does not need any prayer. All that it need is an exploration of your inner world.- Osho
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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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The more empty you become, the more you will be able to receive my vibrations, my heartbeat, my song, the more you will be able to dance in tune with me—and that is the only right way to spread the message. Because the message is not of language; the message is of being, of experience.- Osho
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.- Osho
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.- Osho
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.- Osho
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.- Osho
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.- Osho
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.- Osho
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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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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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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.- 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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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.- 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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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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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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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.- Osho
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.- 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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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.- Osho
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Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen.- Osho
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Oneness is the key.- Osho
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When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.- Osho
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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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Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.- Osho
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- Osho
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First face your own problem an counter then first try to transform your being, only a transformed person can process of transformation in trigger others.- Osho
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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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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.- 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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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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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- 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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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- 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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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.- 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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Growth means you are not moving in a circle, that something new is happening every day, every moment.- 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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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.- 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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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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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .- 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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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.- Osho
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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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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation.- 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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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- 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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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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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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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.- Osho
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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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Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.- Osho
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The 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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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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Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.- Osho
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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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We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.- 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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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- 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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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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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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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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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.- 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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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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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.- Osho
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Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life.- Osho
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.- 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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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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Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.- Osho
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Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.- 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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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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Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.- Osho
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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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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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Don't ask, Don't knock, Don't demand. Just Relax. if you relax, it comes. if you relax, it is there. if you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.- Osho
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.- Osho
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.- 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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Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.- Osho
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.- Osho
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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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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.- 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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Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.- 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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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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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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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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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.- 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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The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.- Osho
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Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.- 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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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- 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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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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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.- Osho
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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.- Osho
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It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.- 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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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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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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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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Witnessing is the greatest miracle in the world, because it takes you out of the circle of birth and death and gives you wings to fly into the eternal sky.- Osho
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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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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- 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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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.- Osho
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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.- Osho
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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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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- 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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There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.- Osho
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Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom.- Osho
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If you are really in love, you are no more the same as your were before. Something has love. You are no more the same as you were before. Something has disappeared; you are reborn. Love is a rebirth.- Osho
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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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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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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- 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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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- 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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Be herenow… just this moment.- Osho
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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.- 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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Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.- Osho
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.- Osho
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The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.- 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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We are not interested in going to paradise; We are interested in making the paradise come here.- 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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- 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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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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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.- Osho
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Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.- Osho
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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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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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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.- Osho
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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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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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Meditation is something natural, something that is already hidden inside you and is trying to find its way to reach to the open sky, to the sun, to the air.- Osho
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Be – don’t try to become.- 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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The mirror mirrors things, but mirroring is not an activity. It is just the nature of the mirror, that whatever comes before it is reflected.- Osho
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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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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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The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.- Osho
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If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.- 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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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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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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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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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.- Osho
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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- Osho
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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.- Osho
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, I cannot live spontaneously.- 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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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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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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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- Osho
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If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.- 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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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.- 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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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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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- 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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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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The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.- Osho
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The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.- Osho
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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 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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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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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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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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Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.- Osho
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Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.- Osho
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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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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.- Osho
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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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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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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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Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center.- Osho
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.- Osho
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.- 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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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- 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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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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.- Osho
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Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being - where you already are.- Osho
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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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That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.- Osho
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I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.- Osho
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My 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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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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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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Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.- 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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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- Osho
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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.- 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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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.- Osho
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.- Osho
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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.- Osho
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Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.- Osho
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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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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- 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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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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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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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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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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Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.- Osho
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Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.- Osho
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.- 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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This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this; 'We come alone into this world, we go alone.' All togetherness is illusory.- Osho
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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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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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Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. You are your hell and your heaven too.- Osho
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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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Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.- 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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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 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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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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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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Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.- Osho
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