Osho's Quotes

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

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

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#3. If I cannot be loving alone, if I can be loving only with someone I love, then I am not really mature yet. Then

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

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#8. Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

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#9. Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

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#10. Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry Put aside all your expertise in syllogism; let songs be your way of life. Move from intellect to intuition, from the head to the heart, because the heart is closer to the mysteries.

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#11. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move - it is so beautiful. Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move - not out of fear,

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#12. Whenever there is a man of Tao his statements will look absurd. They are, because they don't fit in with your mind.

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#13. What is enlightenment? - the capacity to see oneself as one really is.

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#14. This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

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#15. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, a rose, people will think you are mad. If you go to the church and talk to the cross or to an image, nobody will think you are mad, they will think you are religious.

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#16. The more ideals you have the more will be your suffering and the more will be your hypocrisy, because if you cannot fulfill the ideals, then at least you have to pretend.

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#17. The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

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#18. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

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#19. If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.

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#20. The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

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#21. 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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#22. you cannot understand a thing, you begin to abuse it because it insults you. You cannot understand it! You? YOU cannot understand it? That is impossible. Something must be wrong with the thing itself. One begins to abuse, one begins to talk nonsense, and then he feels, "Now it is okay.

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#23. Life begins where fear ends.

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

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#26. 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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#27. 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

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#28. Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Life is not a problem to be solved,
it's a mystery to be lived.

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

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#39. 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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#40. So next time you come to me with any problem, just first inquire inside whether you would like it to be solved, because be aware: I can give a solution. Are you really interested in solving it or just talking about it? You feel good talking about it. Go

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#41. Love is sharing; greed is hoarding. Greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return; it is unconditional sharing.

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#42. The grass beyond your fence is always greener, but don't jump the fence to see whether it is actually so. Enjoy it! If it is greener on the other side of the fence, enjoy it. Why destroy things by jumping the fence and finding out that it is worse than your own grass?

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#43. As far as prayer is concerned it is my freedom, it is my individual concern with God. If I am answerable, I am answerable to God, not to you. I am not praying to you, I am praying to God, and if I am praying wrongly, it is a matter to be settled between me and God. Who are you?

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#44. I live in my own way, I don't consider you. I don't consider anybody at all - because if you start considering others you can't live your life authentically. Consider and you will become phony.

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#45. If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.

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#46. Include and grow. Include and expand.

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#47. I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

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#48. Crowds create illusions.

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#49. The world of politics is basically of the instinctive level. It belongs to the law of the jungle: might is right. And the people who get interested in politics are the most mediocre. Politics needs no other qualifications except one - that is, a deep feeling of inferiority.

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#50. When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered.

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

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

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

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

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#62. To covet beatitude is also avarice.

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

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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.

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

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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.

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#72. actions are no more than dreams

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

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

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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. Death is [ ... ] the blackboard on which life is written.

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#80. 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.

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

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

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

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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. And your God is nothing but a teddy bear for grown-ups. You

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#95. The seeker is the sought.

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

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

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#98. He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is.

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#99. 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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#100. 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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