Osho S Sayings

#1. I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

Kapil Dev

#3. They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there

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#4. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

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#5. Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Death is [ ... ] the blackboard on which life is written.

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#8. Osho is one of India's greatest mystics ... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.

Kabir Bedi

#9. It is others' opinion about you that creates the ego.

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#10. And if you have loved a man or a woman, you will want to give the other person as much freedom as possible. If love cannot give freedom, then it is not love.

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#11. Respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

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#12. There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.

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#13. There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair.

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#14. Watching is an eternal process; you always go on becoming deeper and deeper, but you never come to the end where you can say, "I have got it." In fact, the deeper you go the more you become aware that you have entered into a process that is eternal, without any beginning and without any end. But

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#15. Prayer is a spontaneous feeling. Remember this story when you pray. Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be ready-made, then where will you be authentic and true and natural? Say

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#16. Suppression means only trying to hide certain energies that are there, not allowing them to have their being, not allowing them to have their manifestation. Transformation means changing energies, moving them toward a new dimension. There

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#17. A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before - then there is creativity.

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#18. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there would be no flowers, there would be no green trees, only deserts. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there would be no song in life, no dance in life - only cemeteries and cemeteries. God is not an ascetic; God enjoys life.

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#19. A man who is fearless is neither coward nor brave for bravery is just a cover up for cowardice.

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#20. Watchfulness, or alertness, or awareness, or consciousness, are all different names of the same phenomenon of witnessing. That is the key word. Miss

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#21. Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

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#22. If you can get out of the mind you will get out of Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and all kinds of rubbish will be just finished. You can come to a full stop.

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#23. Here, fire turns into water;
Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.
There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;
Everything supports everything else.

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#24. Nothing in this world is poison.
Nothing is bad in God's whole creation; everything is nectar. It is man alone who has transformed
this full cup of nectar into poison.

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#25. It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

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#26. Life is not a problem to be solved,
it's a mystery to be lived.

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#27. Existence already accepts you - that's why you are here. Otherwise you would not be. This is my basic teaching to you. Existence already accepts you. You do not have to earn it, you are already worthy. Relax, enjoy the way nature has made you.

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#28. To destroy the need to learn, this is the best thing to do: to gone feeling that you already know. Then there's no question of learning, no need to become a disciple. You are satisfied, in your grave. You are dead.

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#29. The proverb that says that the empty mind is the devil's workshop is just nonsense. Just the opposite is the truth: the occupied mind is the devil's workshop!

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#30. With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

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#31. One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation.

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#32. There is no need to choose. Why not live choicelessly? Why not live all that life makes available to you? Don't be a spiritualist and don't be a materialist: be both. Don't be a Zorba and don't be a Buddha; be both: Zorba the Buddha. Enjoy all that God has showered on you. That's

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#33. Osho often reminds us that if existence has invited us to be here, who else's permission do we need to accept ourselves as we are? Once

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#34. Listen to your own heart's whisperings - and they are whisperings. The heart speaks in a very still, small voice; it does not shout.

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#35. Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. - Osho

Robin S. Sharma

#36. You have moved into the laws and regulations of the society and those laws and regulations cannot protect you, they can only give you the feeling of protection. But nothing protects. The laws cannot make you secure, they can only give you a feeling of security that is false.

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#37. You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

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#38. To covet beatitude is also avarice.

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#39. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

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#40. Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

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#41. One who "knows," knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

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#42. To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.

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#43. Truth has nothing to do with your belief! Whether you believe or not makes no difference to truth. But

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#44. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!

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#45. I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

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#46. I had been searching for truth, but it is strange to say that as long as the searcher was there, truth was not found. And when the truth was found, I looked all around ... I was absent. When the truth was found, the seeker was no more; and when the seeker was, truth was nowhere.

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#47. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.

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#48. actions are no more than dreams

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#49. Mind has a temptation to divide. Once you divide, mind is at ease. If you don't divide, if you say, "I'm not going to to say anything. I'm not going to judge," mind feels as if it is on its deathbed.

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#50. In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either.

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#51. There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

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#52. If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.

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#53. Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease, an illness which culminates only in death.

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#54. So if you want to prove something, it shows that you are doubtful about it. You want to destroy your doubt through others' eyes, through their opinions.

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#55. These are the qualities of meditation: a really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

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#56. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

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#57. And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

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#58. Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it.

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#59. Surdas destroyed his eyes believing that once his sight was gone, desire and passion would never arise in him again. But desire doesn't arise in the eyes, it arises out of the mind. No passion will ever be finished in this way-even if one destroys one's own eyes-

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#60. Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

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#61. And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are.

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#62. Just become a little alert and start the change from your side; don't expect it from the other side. It will begin from the other side, too. And it costs nothing to smile, it costs nothing to love, it costs nothing to share your happiness with somebody you love.

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#63. 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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#64. Before anything happens, awareness is already there, a priori.

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#65. Even when you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there." "To

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#66. The seeker is the sought.

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#67. And your God is nothing but a teddy bear for grown-ups. You

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#68. A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected.

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