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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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There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.- 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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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.- Osho
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Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.- Osho
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.- Osho
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I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.- Osho
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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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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!- 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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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- 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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Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.- Osho
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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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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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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- 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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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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There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.- Osho
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.- 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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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.- Osho
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Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.- Osho
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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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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.- Osho
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To move on the path of meditation is to move on the path of life ... life's joys, life's songs, life's laughter. And take everything easy. Easy is right.- Osho
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Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.- Osho
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The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.- Osho
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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.- 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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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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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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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.- 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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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.- 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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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.- Osho
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My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.- Osho
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.- 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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When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.- 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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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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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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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.- 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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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.- Osho
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To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.- Osho
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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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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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Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.- Osho
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence- Osho
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Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.- Osho
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Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.- 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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A religious person is a desireless person.- Osho
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Whenever you feel a problem look within your heart. If you are at ease, you are on the right path. Your heart is the criterion.- Osho
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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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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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Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.- Osho
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My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.- 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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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.- 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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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 is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.- 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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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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Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.- 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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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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It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.- Osho
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Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.- Osho
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Life is our philosophy. Existence is our philosophy. To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion.- Osho
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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 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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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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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.- 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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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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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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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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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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Be – don’t try to become.- 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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Up to now, nobody has said that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a milestone. With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.- Osho
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Meditation 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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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.- Osho
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.- 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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Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.- Osho
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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.- 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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That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better. Why not just simply be? Why unnecessarily hurry here and there? You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.- Osho
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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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Remember it is a very fundamental law. You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you need. Somehow the universe goes on fulfilling your needs; you may understand, you may not understand.- Osho
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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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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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Be Yourself - and only then can you be responsible and authentic and real. But ordinarily everyone is just secondhand and borrowed, and that makes everything ugly.- Osho
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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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Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.- Osho
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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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To me, every day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nourishing, it is energy-giving, it is vitalizing.- Osho
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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?- Osho
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation- Osho
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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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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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Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.- 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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In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.- Osho
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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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I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.- 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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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.- 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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Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.- Osho
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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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To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.- 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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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- 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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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.- 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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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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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.- Osho
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. Into a superman. The superman is needed very much, urgently, because only the superman can prevent this beautiful planet from being destroyed by pygmy politicians, by ugly religions. All these vested interests are going to destroy the most beautiful planet in the universe. You can do only one thing to save it, and that is to become a Buddha and spread your Buddhahood - share it.- Osho
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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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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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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.- Osho
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.- Osho
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.- 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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Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.- Osho
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Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.- Osho
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.- 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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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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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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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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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.- 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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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.- Osho
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God is Nowhere, God is Now Here.- Osho
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.- Osho
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.- 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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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.- 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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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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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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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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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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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.- Osho
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Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.- Osho
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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 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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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.- 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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Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.- Osho
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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I am not doing any serious work. I am not doing work at all; it is my joy to share with you. Now, what you do with it is your problem, not mine.- Osho
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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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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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When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.- 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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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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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.- 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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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- 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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Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.- 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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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.- Osho
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My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.- Osho
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If you 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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You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.- Osho
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You are too much identified with the false, the personality.- Osho
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To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors.- Osho
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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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Celebration is the very nature of existence.- 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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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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Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.- Osho
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Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.- 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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When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.- Osho
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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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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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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.- Osho
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.- Osho
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No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.- 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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Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.- Osho
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I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….- Osho
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Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.- 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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Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.- Osho
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The moment you see that whatsoever you are in your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances.- 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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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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First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.- 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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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.- Osho
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Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.- Osho
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When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss.- 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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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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A woman is to be loved, not understood.- Osho
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.- Osho
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Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.- 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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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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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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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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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- Osho
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Remember, meditation is not something that is done by the mind, it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops, meditation happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond the mind.- Osho
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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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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.- Osho
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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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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.- 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 a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.- Osho
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Remember one thing: that you should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving.- Osho
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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.- 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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Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.- 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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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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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.- 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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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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My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.- 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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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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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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We come alone into this world, we go alone.- 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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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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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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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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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.- 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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Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.- Osho
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.- Osho
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!- Osho
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The 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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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.- 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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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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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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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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Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.- 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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If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.- Osho
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Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.- Osho
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.- Osho
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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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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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Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.- Osho
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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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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.- Osho
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When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.- Osho
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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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Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.- Osho
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If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.- 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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Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.- Osho
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To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.- Osho
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The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.- 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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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.- Osho
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.- Osho
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.- Osho
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My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.- Osho
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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.- 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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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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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.- Osho
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.- Osho
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One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.- Osho
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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.- 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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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.- Osho
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Whenever you create something, you feel enhanced; you reach towards peaks; you get high. All people who are creative are close to religion.- 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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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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Western man is missing the flowering of life because he knows nothing about meditation, and Eastern man is missing because he knows nothing of love.- Osho
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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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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.- Osho
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Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.- 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 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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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.- Osho
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.- 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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I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.- Osho
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Be herenow… just this moment.- Osho
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The still point… There is a point within you where nothing ever moves – no movement from or to, no stirring, no sound created by any instrument. Nobody is there, just stillness, but that stillness is the dance and that stillness is the music.- Osho
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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.- 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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You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.- 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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The real function of the Master is to give you encouragement. Just by his presence, his blissful life, peaceful life, creates a certain milieu in which you can move easily toward dropping your plannings, projects, and allowing existence to happen.- Osho
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.- 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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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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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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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.- Osho
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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.- Osho
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.- Osho
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I have called the New Man ZORBA THE BUDDHA. Zorba represents the materialist, objective approach. Buddha represents the subjective, spiritual approach. Divided, both are poor. Neither of them is a full circle. Joined, they become immensely rich. Joined together, they experience the greatest ecstasy that is available to humanity.- Osho
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The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.- Osho
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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.- Osho
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Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.- Osho
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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.- 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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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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You have to relax, you have to stop judging.- 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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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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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.- Osho
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Once your intelligence and your innocence are available to you, just like two wings, the whole sky is yours. There are no more boundaries for you.- Osho
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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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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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On the path nothing more is needed than Patience- Osho
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.- 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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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.- 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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Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.- Osho
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.- Osho
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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.- 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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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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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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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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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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I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.- Osho
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All conditionings are based on belief. And my whole effort is that experience should be the only criterion not belief.- 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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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.- Osho
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.- Osho
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.- Osho
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If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-min. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond.- Osho
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.- Osho
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If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness.- Osho
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.- Osho
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Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.- Osho
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Love is not a higher quality than truth.- 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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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.- 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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A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.- Osho
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.- 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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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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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.- Osho
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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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Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.- Osho
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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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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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When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.- 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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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .- 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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Through meditation ultimately one finds the being. And the moment you have found the being there is nothing more to be found – you have come home.- Osho
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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.- Osho
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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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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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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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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.- Osho
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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.- Osho
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Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before.- Osho
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The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.- Osho
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.- 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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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.- Osho
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I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.- Osho
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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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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.- Osho
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.- Osho
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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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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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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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The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.- 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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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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God is without purpose. The sky exists without purpose. Flowers bloom without purpose and stars shine without purpose. What happens to poor man that he cannot live without purpose?- Osho
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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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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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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.- 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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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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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.- 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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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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Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.- Osho
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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.- Osho
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Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.- Osho
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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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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.- 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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Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.- Osho
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To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.- 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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The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.- Osho
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.- 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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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.- Osho
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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.- 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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An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed.- Osho
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I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.- Osho
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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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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.- 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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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.- Osho
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.- Osho
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Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.- 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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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.- Osho
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Do meditation without thinking of any result, enjoy meditating as an end in itself. And then some day the light explodes, the ego disappears.- Osho
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Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.- Osho
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To 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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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.- 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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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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All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. I trust in the individual categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual in such a way. So all those things can be removed. Now all that is left to you is a state of meditation which simply means a state of utter silence. Even the word meditation makes it look heavier. It is better to just call it a simple, innocent silence.- Osho
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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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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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A real prayer arises out of gratitude, never out of fear and greed. A real prayer arises out of love for truth.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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Friendliness is one of the most significant qualities for the seeker to develop; it is really sweet. It makes your whole life full of sweet music.- Osho
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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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The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.- Osho
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My effort is to make this whole earth a buddhafield.- Osho
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Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.- 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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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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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.- 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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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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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.- 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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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.- Osho
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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.- 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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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.- Osho
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I want every one of my sannyasins to be utterly unique.- 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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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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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.- 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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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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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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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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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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Rare is the person who transforms his life into a growth, who transforms his life into a long journey of self-actualization, who becomes what he was meant to be. In the East we have called that man the buddha.- Osho
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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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Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.- Osho
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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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If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.- Osho
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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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If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.- Osho
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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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Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.- 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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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.- 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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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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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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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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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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There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.- Osho
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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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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.- Osho
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The one you are looking for is you.- 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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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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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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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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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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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.- Osho
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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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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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Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.- Osho
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Love equalizes people. You give because you love, you give because you respect. You give and allow the man to feel, to be honored, that is true giving.- Osho
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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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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.- 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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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.- Osho
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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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When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.- Osho
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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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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.- Osho
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Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.- Osho
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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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The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.- 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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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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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.- Osho
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.- Osho
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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 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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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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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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Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.- 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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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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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.- 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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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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God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.- Osho
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Oneness is the key.- 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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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.- 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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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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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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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.- 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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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.- 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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- 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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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.- 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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The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.- Osho
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Man is always exploited through fear.- Osho
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.- Osho
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Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.- Osho
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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 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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Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.- Osho
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.- 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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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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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.- 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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Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.- Osho
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.- 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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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.- 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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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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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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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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If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.- Osho
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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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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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If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.- Osho
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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.- Osho
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Never ask, Who is my real friend? Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody? That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.- Osho
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.- Osho
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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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I am not a messiah and I am not a prophet. I am only a friend, and a friend cannot do what you are asking me to do. What commandments can I give you? No, none. I cannot tell you what to do and what not to do.- Osho
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Ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell that I know of.- Osho
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Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.- Osho
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One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful. Nothing else is needed just the pulsation of life is enough.- Osho
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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.- 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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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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Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once you attain to the meditative state.- Osho
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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.- 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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If a person remains blissful in ordinary day-to-day life, doing small things but blissfully, then prayer is spread all over his life.- Osho
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Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.- 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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