Quotes About Osho

#1. 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

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

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#3. Not a single person is born in the world who has not a certain capacity which will make him proud, who is not pregnant with something to produce, to give birth to something new and beautiful, to make the existence richer. There is not a single person who has come into the world empty. Osho

Steve Chandler

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

Kapil Dev

#5. Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

K. R. Narayanan

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

Marianne Williamson

#8. 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

#9. Osho Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh
"Life begins where fear ends." osho

Sushil Singh

#10. Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

Paul Reps

#11. The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy ... and also a prolific author.

Nevill Drury

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

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

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#15. 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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#16. actions are no more than dreams

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

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Truth has nothing to do with your belief! Whether you believe or not makes no difference to truth. But

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

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

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

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#26. To covet beatitude is also avarice.

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

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

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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is.

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

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

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#42. The seeker is the sought.

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

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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair.

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

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

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

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there

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

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#63. 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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#64. Life begins where fear ends.

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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

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

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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

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

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

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#79. 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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#80. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Crowds create illusions.

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

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#90. Include and grow. Include and expand.

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

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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

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#98. India cannot be India again until temples become alive again.

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#99. The ego is not porous. It has no space for anybody else.

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#100. The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.

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