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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
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness
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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
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
- Osho
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
- Osho
Take life as easily as possible. But people don't understand me. I say to them, Life is a mystery. It is not to be solved but to be lived. And somebody has asked me, Osho, when you said that, I heard, Life is a MISERY, not to be solved but to be lived. That is up to you. To me it is a mystery, not to be solved but to be lived, but you can hear it as misery.
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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.
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Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.
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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.
- Osho
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.
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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.
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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
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
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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
Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.
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A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.
- Osho
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
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.
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I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.
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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.
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If you are clear and clean in the mind, you will be able to find solutions for every problem that arises in your life.
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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
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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.
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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.
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When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.
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There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.
- Osho
Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.
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Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
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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
Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key.
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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.
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.
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Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed — and that you are, you already are.
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First face your own problem an counter then first try to transform your being, only a transformed person can process of transformation in trigger others.
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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.
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God is No Where, Life in Now Here.
- Osho
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
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
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.
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Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
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If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.
- Osho
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
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
Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
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Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.
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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.
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To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
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Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.
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The one you are looking for is you.
- Osho
you needs inner light, a light which has its source in your very being, a light which cannot be extinguished even by death, a light which is eternal.
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These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle
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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.
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.
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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.
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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.
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My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.
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Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
- Osho
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
Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
- Osho
Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
- Osho
The being is not a static thing waiting to be discovered by you. The being has to be created moment to moment. That is the only way to discover it.
- Osho
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
- Osho
Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.
- Osho
Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.
- Osho
I teach a new man, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world.[....] only with the death of the old can the new be born. The cessation of the old is the beginning of the new. My message to humanity is a new man.
- Osho
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.
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Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
- Osho
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
First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.
- Osho
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
- Osho
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
With fear, hate, jealousy-anything whatsoever- don’t create a problem out of it. Accept it, allow it, pass through it, and you will defeat all suffering.
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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
My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
- Osho
We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation by love, not by struggle.
- Osho
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
- Osho
Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
- Osho
The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.
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As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty.
- Osho
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
- Osho
To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.
- Osho
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
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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.
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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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.
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If you are aware, you cannot be angry, because anger can exist only in a state of unawareness; that is a prerequisite for anger to exist.
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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
- Osho
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.
- Osho
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
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
- Osho
Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.
- Osho
Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.
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Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
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There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you: it is always in tune with your heart and in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.
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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.
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Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.
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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.
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That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.
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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.
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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.
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
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First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin.
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Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.
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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
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Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
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Once your intelligence and your innocence are available to you, just like two wings, the whole sky is yours. There are no more boundaries for you.
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Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
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Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss.
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
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Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
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The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.
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My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.
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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.
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Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
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Whatsoever you do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.
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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
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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.
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Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.
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Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.
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Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.
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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.
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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
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Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.
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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.
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To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.
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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
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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.
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Be herenow… just this moment.
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All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
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Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.
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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.
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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.
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Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.
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Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.
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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.
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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.
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation
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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.
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The moment you see that whatsoever you are in your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances.
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I have called the New Man ZORBA THE BUDDHA. Zorba represents the materialist, objective approach. Buddha represents the subjective, spiritual approach. Divided, both are poor. Neither of them is a full circle. Joined, they become immensely rich. Joined together, they experience the greatest ecstasy that is available to humanity.
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Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
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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.
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Truth is to be lived, not understood.
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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.
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Every man, every woman is born with a bird in the heart. The heart has wings, but the heart can open its wings only in the sky if silence.
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I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.
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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
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My whole effort is to make your morality spontaneous. You should be conscious and alert, and respond to every situation with absolute consciousness. Then whatever you do is right. It is not a question of actions being right or wrong, it is a question of consciousness - whether you are doing it consciously or unconsciously like a robot.
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.
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It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.
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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
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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.
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When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
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Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.
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The first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.
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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
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Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.
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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.
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Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
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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.
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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.
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
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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.
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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.
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No one can achieve one's individuality by following another, the other is always the other.
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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.
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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.
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Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong.
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence
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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
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
- Osho
Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone.
- Osho
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
The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.
- Osho
An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed.
- Osho
So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.
- Osho
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
If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
- Osho
I want to emphasize the point that if a man can have ninety years of physical age and thirteen years of mental age, the vice versa is also possible, and should be made possible. A thirteen-years-old boy can have the mind and mental age of a ninety years old man. And that will be the day of rejoicing, when your mental age is ahead of your physical age. That is the beginning of a superman, the beginning of the new man, a new humanity.
- Osho
Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
- Osho
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
- Osho
My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.
- Osho
If you enter heaven because other forced you to act according to certain precepts, certain commandments, you will regret even in heaven.
- Osho
I have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.
- Osho
Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
- Osho
To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
- Osho
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
Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.
- Osho
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
- Osho
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
- Osho
If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.
- Osho
Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
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
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
The moment you experience your own being, you have experienced the being of this whole universe because your heartbeat is part of the heartbeat of the universe.
- Osho
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
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
When Mind knows, We call it Knowledge, When Heart knows, We call it Love, and When Being knows, We call it Meditation.
- Osho
All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. I trust in the individual categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual in such a way. So all those things can be removed. Now all that is left to you is a state of meditation which simply means a state of utter silence. Even the word meditation makes it look heavier. It is better to just call it a simple, innocent silence.
- Osho
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
you can drop your miseries only when some inner meaning starts flowering in you. Miseries can be dropped only when meditation starts blooming in you.
- Osho
The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.
- Osho
Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter.
- Osho
The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.
- Osho
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
- Osho
I am not doing any serious work. I am not doing work at all; it is my joy to share with you. Now, what you do with it is your problem, not mine.
- Osho
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
Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.
- Osho
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
Life is for those who know how to celebrate.
- Osho
Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.
- Osho
Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.
- Osho
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
- Osho
A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.
- Osho
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
Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.
- Osho
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
- Osho
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
- Osho
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
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
When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God reflects. Then all chaos disappears, all questions disappear.
- Osho
If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.
- Osho
Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.
- Osho
Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.
- Osho
It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
- Osho
The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.
- Osho
If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.
- Osho
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
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
Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
- Osho
Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.
- Osho
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
Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being.
- Osho
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
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
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
- Osho
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
- Osho
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
- Osho
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
Prayer is meaningless if it is not out of alertness. And a man of alertness need not have any prayer – alertness is enough unto itself.
- Osho
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
- Osho
There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.
- Osho
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
- Osho
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
- Osho
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
- Osho
It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.
- Osho
If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
- Osho
One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
- Osho
Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.
- Osho
Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
- Osho
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
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
Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
- Osho
Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.
- Osho
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
- Osho
My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.
- Osho
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
Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.
- Osho
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
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
Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again.
- Osho
Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.
- Osho
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
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
When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.
- Osho
Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.
- Osho
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
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
Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.
- Osho
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.
- Osho
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
I am not a psychoanalyst. I am not here to treat your minds and cure them. I am here to bring you out of your minds - healthy, unhealthy, neurotic, non-neurotic, it doesn't matter. I don't take any note of your mind, what kind of mind you have. Any kind of mind...you have to be taken out of it! So I don't go into the details, I simply start hammering!
- Osho
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.
- Osho
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
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
- Osho
Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.
- Osho
We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.
- Osho
Live the day and live the night too. Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits together and makes it a piece of art.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
- Osho
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
When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.
- Osho
Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.
- Osho
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
- Osho
We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
- Osho
Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.
- Osho
If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.
- Osho
Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.
- Osho
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
Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.
- Osho
Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen.
- Osho
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
- Osho
I'm not giving you another dream, remember. You hanker for it, you would like me to give you another dream, but I am not going to give you another dream. That's why to be with me is difficult and arduous - because I am insisting that you wake up. Enough is enough. You have dreamed a lot; since eternity you have been dreaming. You have just been changing dreams. When you get fed up with one dream, you start changing it; you dream another dream. My whole effort is to shake you, to shock you - to wake you.
- Osho
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
- Osho
Whenever you create something, you feel enhanced; you reach towards peaks; you get high. All people who are creative are close to religion.
- Osho
Every man has the potential to become enlightened. If he does not become, he is responsible — nobody else is responsible for it.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
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
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
Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself.
- Osho
Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.
- Osho
To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.
- Osho
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
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
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
A woman is to be loved, not understood.
- Osho
It(existence) has given me so much, there is no way to pay anything back; there is no word even to express gratitude. The only way is that my every breath should be used in helping people to reach to the same Everest of consciousness.
- Osho
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
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
- Osho
Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.
- Osho
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
Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
- Osho
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
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
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
- Osho
All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
- Osho
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
- Osho
The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.
- Osho
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
- Osho
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
- Osho
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
- Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- Osho
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
- Osho
Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
- Osho
You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
- Osho
The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
- Osho
Be silent and you will understand not only about Zen, you will understand the very essence of existence itself.
- Osho
The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.
- Osho
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
- Osho
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
- Osho
My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.
- Osho
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
This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this; 'We come alone into this world, we go alone.' All togetherness is illusory.
- Osho
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
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
- Osho
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
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.
- Osho
The poison can become medicinal - you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous - if you dint know how to use it.
- Osho
Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.
- Osho
Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.
- Osho
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
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
If you are really in love, you are no more the same as your were before. Something has love. You are no more the same as you were before. Something has disappeared; you are reborn. Love is a rebirth.
- Osho
Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
- Osho
Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.
- Osho
Don't try to understand life, Live it! Don't try to understand love, Move into love. Then you will know.
- Osho
I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.
- Osho
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- Osho
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
- Osho
Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.
- Osho
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
- Osho
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
Consciousness without thinking: That’s what awareness is.
- Osho
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
- Osho
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
I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life.
- Osho
It is very rare to find a person who accepts himself – because the moment he accepts himself, he is reborn.
- Osho
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
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
- Osho
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
- Osho
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
Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.
- Osho
We are bringing a new approach in religion. You do not go away from the world, but rather go deeper into it and change it. This is more courageous.
- Osho
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
Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality'. Totality will give you a different dimension.
- Osho
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.
- Osho
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
- Osho
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Osho
Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting.
- Osho
My function is very different from the function of Gautam Buddha. His function is only a small part of my philosophy. I want individuals to become enlightened, but I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people. They may not become enlightened, but at least become conscious enough so that nations disappear, religions disappear, races disappear, and we can live as one humanity, as one earth.
- Osho
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
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
Life begins where fear ends.
- Osho
Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.
- Osho
Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.
- Osho
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
- Osho
To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
- Osho
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
Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.
- Osho
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
- Osho
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
- Osho
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
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
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.
- Osho
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.
- Osho
Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
- Osho
Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
- Osho
Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
- Osho
I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.
- Osho
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
- Osho
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
My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.
- Osho
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.
- Osho
Life is freedom. It does not impose any meaning on you; it simply gives you an opportunity to create your own meaning. The meaning has to be created.
- Osho
If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.
- Osho
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
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
Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.
- Osho
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
Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.
- Osho
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
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
- Osho
The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
- Osho
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
- Osho
When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless.
- Osho
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.
- Osho
Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.
- Osho
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
In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
- Osho
Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.
- Osho
Never speak of me in the past tense. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
- Osho
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
- Osho
Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.
- Osho
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
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
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
We come alone into this world, we go alone.
- Osho
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
If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.
- Osho
I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.
- Osho
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
- Osho
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
- Osho
Hate can very easily turn into love, just as love can turn into hate. They are two sides of the same coin.
- Osho
The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.
- Osho
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
- Osho
Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation.
- Osho
Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.
- Osho
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
- Osho
Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.
- Osho
I am not a messiah, and I am not a missionary. And I am not here to establish a church or to give a doctrine to the world, a new religion, no. My effort is totally different: a new consciousness not a new religion, a new consciousness not a new doctrine. Enough of doctrines and enough of religions! Man needs a new consciousness. And the only way to bring consciousness is to go on hammering from all the sides so that slowly slowly chunks of your mind go on dropping. The statue of a buddha is hidden in you. Right now you are a rock. If I go on hammering, cutting chunks out of you, slowly slowly the buddha will emerge. It takes time.
- Osho
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
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
As you come to the center of your being you have found your original face. Your original face is the Buddha.
- Osho
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
Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.
- Osho
No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.
- Osho
Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.
- Osho
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
- Osho
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
- Osho
Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.
- Osho
Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.
- Osho
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.
- Osho
The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.
- Osho
Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
- Osho
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
- Osho
The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.
- Osho
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
- Osho
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
- Osho
The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
- Osho
Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.
- Osho
To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
- Osho
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
- Osho
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.
- Osho
Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
- Osho
A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.
- Osho
Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
- Osho
Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.
- Osho
When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.
- Osho
My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
- Osho
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
Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.
- Osho
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
- Osho
To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
- Osho
he person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
- Osho
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
Oneness is the key.
- Osho
Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
- Osho
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
- Osho
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
- Osho
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
- Osho
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
- Osho
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
- Osho
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
- Osho
The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown,makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear.
- Osho
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
- Osho
It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.
- Osho
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
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
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
Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.
- Osho
Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it!
- Osho
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
You cannot destroy inner emptiness. It is your very being. You can cover it with things, but sooner or later you will have to encounter it. And it is better if you encounter it sooner.
- Osho
Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.
- Osho
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
- Osho
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
- Osho
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
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
- Osho
Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.
- Osho
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.
- Osho
Man is always exploited through fear.
- Osho
I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.
- Osho
Wherever you are, reality is. You are part of reality and you exist only as an organic part to reality. You cannot go away. You cannot separate yourself.
- Osho
Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
- Osho
The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.
- Osho
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
- Osho
The mirror mirrors things, but mirroring is not an activity. It is just the nature of the mirror, that whatever comes before it is reflected.
- Osho
If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.
- Osho
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
- Osho
Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
- Osho
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
- Osho
Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .
- Osho
Celebration is the very nature of existence.
- Osho
Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.
- Osho
Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lover, silence is enough language. without saying anything, they go on speaking.
- Osho
Be – don’t try to become.
- Osho
Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
- Osho
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
Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.
- Osho
A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.
- Osho
The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
- Osho
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
You have to relax, you have to stop judging.
- Osho
If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be religious.
- Osho
Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.
- Osho
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
- Osho
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
- Osho
The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.
- Osho
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
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higer levels.
- Osho
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
- Osho
A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality.
- Osho
There is no need to run towards the ocean. Just slowly enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the people, having a trust in your heart that every river has always reached the ocean. And you cannot be the exception. Existence does not allow any exceptions. You will also reach the ocean.
- Osho
To see the beauty of the flower you need silence, not analysis; beauty can never be understood through analysis.
- Osho
I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
- Osho
Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
- Osho
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
- Osho
Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.
- Osho
Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.
- Osho
When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
- Osho
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
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
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
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
This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These three experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity.
- Osho
Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.
- Osho
The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.
- Osho
Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.
- Osho
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
- Osho
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
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
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
- Osho
Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.
- Osho
Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
- Osho
Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.
- Osho
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
If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
- Osho
You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life.
- Osho
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
Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
- Osho
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- Osho
All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.
- Osho
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
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation.
- Osho
Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
- Osho

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