- “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
- “Experience life in all possible ways –good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” ― Osho
- “Be — don’t try to become” ― Osho
- Humanity will really be born only the day the individual is respected in his rebellion. – 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
- “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.” ― Osho
- “Life begins where fear ends.” ― Osho
- “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
- “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle” ― Osho
- “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.” ― Osho
- “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
- “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.” ― Osho
- “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.” ― Osho
- “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” ― Osho
- Relaxation is like a flowering; you cannot force it. You have to understand the whole phenomenon—why you are so active, why so much occupation with activity, why you are obsessed with it. – Osho
- “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.” ― Osho
- “Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.” ― Osho
- “The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” ― 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. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.” ― Osho
- When you want to climb to the highest peak of the mountains, it is arduous. And when you have reached the peak and you lie down, whispering with the clouds, looking at the sky, the joy that fills your heart—that joy always comes whenever you reach any peak of creativity. – Osho
- “Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating.
- These trees are not serious; these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight.
- Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.” ― Osho
- “Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown” ― Osho
- “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.” ― 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
- “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.” ― Osho
- A relaxed person is simply non-obsessive, and the energy starts accumulating within him. He conserves his energy, and then when the moment for action comes his total being flows into it. – Osho
- “Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.” ― Osho
- “Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.” ― Osho
- “They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!” ― Osho
- “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” ― Osho
- “If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.” ― Osho
- “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.” – Osho
- “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.” ― Osho
- “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed– borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” ― Osho
- “Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.” ― Osho
- “To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.” ― Osho
- “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.” ― 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
- “In love the other is important; in lust you are important” ― 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
- “One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.” ― Osho
- “A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do” ― Osho
- “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” ― Osho
- “All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.” ― Osho
- “It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of UNLEARNING much.” – Osho
- “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.” ― Osho
- “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
- “Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.” ― Osho
- “There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.” – Osho
- “There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.” ― Osho
- “Love is not a relationship; love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not “in love”, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.” ― Osho
- “It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.” ― Osho
- “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.” ― Osho, Courage
- “It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and everybody dies with an open hand!” ― Osho
- “You don’t want to lose your old friend – the misery – You have invested too much into false – Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true – to be naked as you are” ― Osho
- “What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.” ― Osho
- “Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.” ― Osho
- “You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung. It is a dance to be danced…” ― Osho
- “Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests” ― Osho
- “No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.” ― Osho
- “In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light” ― Osho
- “A man who is 100% sane is dead.” ― Osho
- “The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life to Become a Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.” ― Osho
- “There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.” ― Osho
- “Lovers never surrender to each other; lovers simply surrender to love.” ― Osho
- “You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.” ― Osho
- “The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.” ― Osho
- “Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.” ― Osho
- “Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory” ― Osho
- “Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.” ― Osho
- “Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.” ― Osho
- “Crowds create illusions.” ― Osho
- “Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.” ― Osho
- “Meditation is a surrender; it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.” ― Osho
- “Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.” ― 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.” ― Osho
- “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.” ― Osho
- “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.” ― Osho
- “People sometimes ask me; what religion are you? I always answer by saying, ”I am a little part of all religions and a big part of no religion” ― Osho
- “You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.” ― Osho
- “A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.” ― Osho
- “This is the secret, THE secret … De-automatize.” ― Osho
- “Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand ~ relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”― Osho
- “If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love…” ― Osho
- “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.” ― 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
- “There is no sorrow except in captivity.” ― Osho
- “One who” knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough” ― Osho
- “No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberate” ― Osho
- “Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.” ― Osho
- “Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.” ― Osho
- “The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; It is to live in love, and trust; It is to move in the unknown.” ― Osho
- “Never interfere in anybody´s life and don´t allow anybody to interfere in your life.” ― Osho
- “Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.” ― Osho
- “Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.” ― Osho
- “All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.” ― Osho
- “A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.” ― Osho
- “Joy is spiritual. It is different, totally different from pleasure or happiness. It has nothing to do with the outside, with the other, it is an inner phenomenon.” ― 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
- “We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.” ― Osho
- “You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.” ― Osho
- “Every being is unique. God never creates carbon copies; he always creates originals. He is truly a creator. He never repeats but man goes on living in imitation we are trying to be somebody else which is impossible.” ― Osho
- “Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.” ― Osho
- “Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.” ― Osho
- “Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.” ― Osho
- “There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.” ― Osho
- “Whatever is of consequence in life, is always hidden from view. What is manifest being the outer cover; what remains unmanifest is the soul within.” ― Osho
- “Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.” ― Osho
- “Love is the true God—not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.” ― Osho
- “You can love as many people as you want – that does not mean one day you will go bankrupt, and you will have to declare, ‘Now I have no love.’ You cannot go bankrupt as far as love is concerned.” ― Osho
- “Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.” ― Osho
- “Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.” ― Osho
- “All that you call sin is nothing but mistakes. And mistakes are the way of learning. ” – Osho
- “Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.” ― 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
- “The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.” ― Osho
- “Dance while you are alive. Breathe blissfully while you are alive. Sing while you are alive. Love, meditate while you are alive.” ― Osho
- “Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.” ― Osho
- “Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.” ― Osho
- “Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.” ― Osho
- “If you cling too much to logic you will never be able to be part of the living process that this existence is. Life is more than logic: life is paradox, life is mystery.” ― Osho
- “The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience.” ― Osho
- “The small flower is as total as the sun.” ― Osho
- “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.” ― Osho
- “And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about.” ― Osho
- “The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave” ― Osho
- “Sing your song, and if nobody listens, sing it alone and enjoy it.” ― Osho
- “There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair.” ― Osho
- “No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.” ― Osho
- “Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”― Osho
- “Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.” ― Osho
- “Misery is an indication that you are in conflict.” ― Osho
- “Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.” ― Osho
- “Express your uniqueness in whatsoever you do. Express your individuality. Let existence be proud of you. Life will not be felt like a drag; it will become a fragrance.” ― Osho
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, it’s a mystery to be lived.” ― Osho
- “Security is of the world; insecurity is of the divine.” ― Osho
- “Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.” ― Osho
- “It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.” ― Osho
- “The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.” ― Osho
- “Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.” ― Osho
- “Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It blooms only in courage.” ― Osho
- “The past is memory; the future is imagination. Only the present is time. The past is not; it has already gone. The future is not; it has not come yet. Only the present is.” ― Osho
- “The ordinary love is a demand; the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving.” ― Osho
- “Real meditation means: don’t avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it.” ― Osho
- “Listen to your own heart’s whisperings—and they are whisperings. The heart speaks in a very still, small voice; it does not shout.” ― Osho
- “Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.” ― Osho
- “When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love — that is the meaning of love.” ― Osho
- “Real love is considerate but has no concern.” ― Osho
- “Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.”― Osho
- “All lovers are in trouble. The trouble is not personal; it is in the very nature of things. They would not have been” ― Osho
- “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.” ― Osho
- “A morality that comes with effort is immoral. A morality that comes without effort is the only morality there is.” ― Osho
- “Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.”― Osho
- “You cannot step in the same river twice,” because it is always flowing.”― Osho
- “Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!” ― Osho
- “If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.” ― Osho
- “My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.” ― Osho
- “Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.” ― Osho
- “Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.” ― Osho
- “Respect your uniqueness and drop comparison. Relax into your being.” – 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
- “You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.” – Osho
- “The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.” – Osho
- “Love is the very meaning of life. If there is no love, life become meaningless.” – Osho
- “Beware: Don’t choose the convenient the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.” – Osho
- “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. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.” – Osho
- “One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in in the midst of his woman’s emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trust ability and she can relax. – Osho
- “Nothing kills ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore.” – Osho
- “Never try to change the 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
- “The mind becomes the problem because you have taken thoughts so deeply inside you that you have forgotten completely the Distance; that they are Visitors, they come and go.” – Osho
- “While you are laughing you cannot be in the past or in the future.” – Osho
- “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. “That is the simple secret of happiness.” – Osho
- “Doing anything, if you feel easy doing it, it is right. If you feel uneasy doing it, something is wrong.” – Osho
- “If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. Because relationship with others…. the other is nothing but a mirror.” – Osho
- “If you really love the person you will give him or her absolute freedom — that’s a gift of love. And when there is freedom, love responds tremendously. When you give freedom to somebody you have given the greatest gift, and love comes rushing towards you.” – Osho
- “You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.” – Osho
- “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less feel more.” – Osho
- “Now is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.” – Osho
- “I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turn into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.” – Osho
- “You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.” – Osho
- “Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will in scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.” – Osho
- “You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.” – Osho
- “The usefulness of this cup is its emptiness.” – 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
- “Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question, always be concerned with yourself.” – Osho
- “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
- “Without meditation you do not know the secrets of life, you know only the surface of life.” – Osho
- “My suggestion is that whenever you have to choose, always choose the unknown, because the known you have already live. Never miss the unknown. Always choose the unknown. Always choose the unknown and go headlong. Even if you suffer, it is worth it. It always pays.” – Osho
- “God is always joking. Look at your own life. – It is a joke! Look at other people’s lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.” – Osho
- Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.” – Osho
- “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.” – Osho
- “Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens – in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the awakened one, the enlightened one.” – One
- “There is no need for you to change the world; just change yourself and you have started changing the world, because you are part of the world. If even a single human being changes, that change will radiate to thousands and thousands of others. You will become a triggering point for a revolution which can give birth to a totally new kind of human being.” – Osho
- “The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself. Nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion. Come out in open – even if it goes against the world. Enjoy your original being. To me, that’s what rebellion is, that’s what religion is.” – Osho
- “It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” – Osho
- “Medicine cures the body, meditation cures your being; it is the inner medicine.” – Osho
- “I am against all organized religions, without any exception, for the simple reason that truth cannot be organized, love cannot be organized. – It is not politics.” – Osho
- “First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn’t matter, you are full, overflowing. If nobody knocks at your door it is perfectly okay. You are not missing. You are not waiting for somebody to come and knock at the door. You are at home. If somebody comes, good, beautiful. If nobody comes, that too is beautiful and good.” – Osho
- “Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it – total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don’t react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.” – Osho
- “Intimacy means that there is no privacy. You don’t carry anything private now, at least with the person you are intimate with, you drop your privacy. You are nude and naked-good, bad, whatsoever you are, you open your heart. And whatever the cost you pay for it; whatever the trouble you go through with it. That brings growth.” – 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
- “There is no need to be more – you are enough. Everybody is enough.” – Osho
- “You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.” – Osho
- “The First Lesson of Love Is to Learn How to Be Alone.” – Osho
- “The fear of death is fear of time. And the fear of time is, deeply down, fear of unlived moment, of an unlived life. So what to do? Live more, and live more intensely. Live dangerously. It is your life. Don’t sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you. It is your life: Live it! Don’t sacrifice it for words, theories, countries or politics. Don’t sacrifice it for anybody. Live it! Don’t think that it is courageous to die. The only courage is to live life totally; there is no courage.” – Osho
- “Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.” – Osho
- “Don’t allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them.” – Osho
- “People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.” – Osho
- “Meditation is a state of silence; meditation is a state of no desire; meditation is a state of no past, no future; meditation is a state when you are not doing anything, just cherishing your being. You are just happy that you are, happy that you are breathing, simply happy for no reason at all. In those moments there is meditation.” – Osho
- “It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, A watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.” – Osho
- “Just live in the moment with intensity and totality. Live it with as a much joy as possible, with as much love as possible, with no fear, no guilt. This existence is yours and this moment is a gift – don’t let it go to waste.” – Osho
- “Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just pure awareness.” – Osho
- “If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.” – Osho
- “Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.” – Osho
- “Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation, the most beautiful way.” – Osho
- “There is no other greater ecstasy, than to know who you are.” – Osho
- “Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.” – Osho
- “Learn to love, and drop all that goes against love. It is the greatest art in existence, to be able to love.” – Osho
- “The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” – Osho
- “Just be silent, utterly silent. Let peace descend over you and revelation of the mysterious truth of existence is yours.” – Osho
- “If you are peaceful the whole world becomes peaceful to you. It is just a reflection. Whatsoever you are is reflected all over. Everyone becomes a mirror.” – Osho
- “Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.” – Osho
- “In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence.” – Osho
- “Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you – wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in love with someone – it is a question of being.” – Osho
- “When two persons are independent, only then there is love, love can flow only between two freedoms.” – Osho
- “The one you are looking for is you.” – Osho
- “Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.” – Osho
- “Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.” – Osho
- “If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere!” – Osho
- “Small things can become so beautiful. A little caring, a little sharing, that’s all life is.” – Osho
- “Just allow life to take you whosesoever it leads you and don’t be afraid. Fear is the only thing one should be afraid of, nothing else. Move! Be courageous and daring.” – Osho
- “If you love a person, you will not interfere his personal life. You would not dare to break boundaries of his inner world.” – Osho
- “The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you to just be a robot, and because you have agreed to be robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.” – Osho
- “To have a loving heart, you need a little less calculating head.” – Osho
- “Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” – 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
- “Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.” – Osho
- “Go inwards, find your inner space. And suddenly you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy.” – Osho
- “Everything starts with love, remember; Love is the ultimate law. Then prayer, mercy, grace, follow of their own accord.” – Osho
- “Love is the most healing force in the world; nothing goes deeper than love. It heals not only the body, not only the mind, but also the soul.” – Osho
- “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives, height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s it’s balance.” – Osho
- “When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a women and never love a man as a man.” – Osho
- “Once you are rooted in your own center, nothing from outside can move you.” – Osho
- “Nothing is stable in this life, neither love nor friendship. Constant change is the very nature of this world. The world is like a river-constantly flowing.” – Osho
- “If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.” – Osho
- “Just relax and let things be as they are. A very passive awareness- that is the meaning of meditation. If sometimes you forget watching, perfectly good! When you remember, you watch again. When you forget, you forget. This is relaxation, this is accepting life as it comes.” – Osho
- “The ego is an iceberg. Melt it. Melt it. Melt it deep in love, so it disappears and you become part of the ocean.” – Osho
- “If you can be love in any situation, then you are in meditation.” – Osho
- “Live according to your own light, find your own light within and live according to it without any fear.” – Osho
- “The man who lives in the present, unburdened of past and future, knows the taste of freedom.” – Osho
- “Don’t get stuck anywhere. Remain flowing like a river.” – Osho
- “To have a loving heart, you need a little less calculating head.” – Osho
- “No society wants you to become wise, it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots…they will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.” – Osho
- “Just becoming a watcher of your mind and creating a distance between you and your thoughts, and your thoughts start disappearing.” – Osho
- “Love is Born with you; it is your intrinsic quality. All that is needed is to give it a way–to make a passage for it, to let it flow.” – Osho
- “Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lovers, silence is enough language. Without saying anything, they go on speaking.” – Osho
- “Love your children but never hope through them.” – Osho
- “Nowhere to go…just in…” – Osho
- “Why be possessive? The possessiveness shows simply one thing – that you cannot trust existence. Non-possessiveness is basically trust in existence. There is no need to possess, because the whole is already ours.” – Osho
- “Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow.” – Osho
- “The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere – and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes.” – Osho
- “When you trust yourself you trust the whole Universe also.” – Osho
- “A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.” – Osho
- “The fully matured man has no fear, no defense, he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.” – Osho
- “Live dangerously! Only the eagle knows the aloneness of the heights, the silence of heights, the danger of the heights! But without knowing danger, one never grows.” – Osho
- “It is does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.” – Osho
- “Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness.” – Osho
- “If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.” – Osho
- “Meditation is a must before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love.” – Osho
- “Watch a flower opening in the morning. Just go on watching-this is grace. There is no effort at all, the flower just moves according to nature.” – Osho
- “REBEL. Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis.” – Osho
- “Let life flow; don’t interfere.” – Osho
- “The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.” – Osho
- “Forget the past, forget the future, this moment is all. This moment has to become your prayer, your love, your life, your death, your everything. This is it. And live courageously, don’t be cowards. Don’t think of consequences; only cowards think of consequences.” – Osho
- “Meditation brings immense beauty to the person, infinite grace, and a beauty which is not something painted on the surface, a beauty which has nothing to do with the body, a beauty that radiates from the very center of your being.” – Osho
- “Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it – and don’t carry parts because those parts won’t allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Live this moment as totally as possible, and suddenly you will come to realize, that if you live it totally, it is solved. There is no need to solve it. Life is not a problem to be solved, it’s a mystery to be lived.” – Osho
- “Relaxation means you don’t have any shoulds. You are simply living moment to moment, not according to some future idea of yourself, but according to your reality that is here now.” – Osho
- “Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.” – Osho
- “People can be happy only in one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing; they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.” – Osho
- “Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: you are a Witness.” – Osho
- “Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift; it is not a bargain.” – Osho
- “Life is an open secret. Everything is available, nothing is hidden. All that you need is just eyes to see.” – Osho
- “Meditation is not a solution to any problem, it solves nothing. It simply helps you get rid of the mind, the problem-creator. It simply helps you to slip out of the mind like a snake slips out of the old skin.” – Osho
- “Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion’s roar.” – 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
- “If you love yourself, you will love others.” – Osho
- “Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.” – Osho
- “To be alive means to have a sense of humor, to have a deep, loving quality, to have a playfulness.” – Osho
- “Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.” – Osho
- “In meditation you are throwing yourself into the cosmos to be purified. In meditation we are related directly to the cosmos.” – Osho
- “A man of awareness knows that life is constantly changing. Life is change. There is only one thing permanent, and that is change. Except change, everything else changes.” – Osho
- “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. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.” – Osho
- “Any kind of dependence is slavery, and the spiritual dependence is the worst slavery of all. I have been making every effort to make you aware of your individuality, your freedom, your absolute capacity to grow without any help from anybody.” – Osho
- “Alertness, Awareness, Mindfulness are keys to meditation.” – Osho
- “Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowhere is the now-here. Nowhere consists of two words: now, here. Between these two nowhere is the now-here.” – Osho
- “Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised – a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised – there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly. just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.” – Osho
- “To accept the challenge of the unknown is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly, slowly those fears disappear.” – Osho
- “There is nothing to become. You are already that, it is already the case. Stop running after shadows.” – Osho
- “When you give freedom to somebody you have given the greatest gift, and love comes rushing towards you.” – Osho
- “Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So, be a bigger person skip the “e” and let it “go”!
- “When you are ‘Happy Alone, when you can live with yourself, there is no intrinsic necessity to be in relationship.” – Osho
- “There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.” – Osho
- “Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present.” – Osho
- “Intelligence is the capacity is to be reborn again and again. To die to the past is intelligence, and to live in the present is intelligence.” – Osho
- “Whatsoever is needed at a particular time will be given to you, never before it. You get it only when you need it, and there is not even a single moment’s delay. When you need it you get it, immediately, instantly! That’s the beauty of trust. by and by you learn the ways of how existence goes on providing for you.” – Osho
- “Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.” – Osho
- “It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complimentary, not contradictory.” – Osho
- “Delighting in small things: If you are delighted, joy will descend on you. Delight is human; joy is divine. When you are delighted, you will feel great joy descending on you.” – Osho
- “You have to accept your aloneness, which is no way you can avoid. And there is no way to change its nature. It is your authentic reality. It is you.” – Osho
- “If your love is only a feeling and it is not translated into action, it won’t affect the larger humanity. – Osho
- These 10 Non-Commandments Constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man’s freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.Freedom.Uniqueness of Individuality
Love
Meditation
Non – Seriousness
Playfulness
Creativity
Sensitivity
Gratefulness
A Feeling of the Mysterious.” – Osho