Miscellaneous
Osho Quotes
Be aware – deep down you are
really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
Love is a wine; you have to
taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do
you know what it is.
When it comes to deciding
between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
Intelligence never grows by imitation:
Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
The society is ill;individuals
are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is
the patient and needs hospitalization.
It matters not who you love,
where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only
that you love.
If you cannot enjoy your own
company, who else is going to enjoy it?
The person who can be happy
alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the others. You are
slave. You are yet not free. You are in bondage.
Suicide leads nowhere, it
simply enters your consciousness into another womb of a lower kind, because you
could not manage to live on a higher level.
Your marriage is a subtle
politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
Life has no meaning. Rejoice!
It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be
serious. It is a cosmic joke.
All beliefs suffocate and all
beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
Life is a purposeless play, a
play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if
you have ambition to become something.
Don’t go on with borrowed
knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain
ignorant.
It is better to be ignorant; at
least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
If you live with love, through
love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
When I say that you are Gods
and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is
infinite.
One who thinks in terms of
superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the
same coin.
The person who trusts can relax
into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious,
afraid.
I don’t want followers,
obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
Your heaven and your happiness
is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always
HERE, it is always NOW.
Be a drunkard, drunk with life,
with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead.
That which makes you miserable
is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to
be avoided.
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened
by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to
go back again and again.
Whenever you plan for love,
whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
Love is true only when it is
spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
Nobody is responsible except
you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
Friendship is the purest love.
It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where
one simply enjoys giving.
The people who ask what is the
meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they
are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
Life in itself is so beautiful
that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
If something is meant to go
elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you
it cannot flee.
Go easy on yourself, for the
outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
A woman is one of the most
beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The
woman is the masterpiece of god.
The person who enjoys his life
has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are
worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
Drop comparing and life is
really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
This world is just a game.
Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a
play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.
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The real question is not
whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive
before death.
Doing brings ego. Ego is the
shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is
awareness, watchfulness.
Love is a bird and it loves to
be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
Love is true only when it does
not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his
individuality, his privacy.
Once I was on a journey and
someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My
reply was, Love.
Life is not a tension anywhere
except in the minds of humanity.
The ultimate state of love is
freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not
worthwhile.
My enlightenment has freed me
from everything, including enlightenment.
There has never been a person
like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world,
and there will never be anybody like you.
Life is a mirror, it reflects
your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
You just listen to your own
heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own
intuition is your only teacher.
The person who can be happy
alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are
a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.
A child needs immense privacy,
as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his
individuality. (Here are a few more good parenting tips)
In relationship be blissful, in
alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
We have to change this world by
celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by
struggle.
Remember it is not only you who
are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
Never obey anyone’s command
unless it is coming from within you also.
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.
If you are sad you are wrong;
if you are joyful you are right.
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.
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.
Accept the fact that we are
strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I
myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?
Once you have tasted the juice
of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life
then nothing matter. Life all there is.
People love freedom – but
nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
Real love makes you more of an
individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality.
Real love is very respectful.
Tomorrow-drop that word from
your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the
nature of things. Only this day exists.
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.
Once your awareness becomes a
flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Paradise is within you, in your
state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
Love is ultimate, the highest
health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you
completely forgot about love.
God cannot be an object. It is
deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
“Never speak of me in the past
tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my
tortured body.
Just see how much respect God
has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly
unique.
If you remain always far, love
will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a
continuous flowing relationship.
If love can not keep you
together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you
together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.
Lovers are mirrors to each
other. Love makes you aware of your original face.
Perfect people don’t exist. And
perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that
keeps life interesting.
If you have no conditions you
can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become
incapable.
Misery comes the moment you
become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
Easy is right. Begin right and
you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is
right, egolessness is right.
Love means the art of being
with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two
aspects of the same coin.
I’ll never make any resolutions.
Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule
is that there are no golden rules.
Resolution is struggle.
Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously. “.
I resolve never to make any
resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All
resolutions are imprisonments.
Unless you love yourself, you
can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing
is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is
transformation.
Love lives in waiting – dies in
meeting, becomes ordinary.
To love means to drop the ego,
to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
The existence loves you,
otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by
the whole.
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.
The greatest freedom is to be
free of one’s own mind.
Happiness is not conditional;
nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed — and that you are,
you already are.
To possess anything is to be
possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around
yourself.
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without
Wings and Think Without Mind.
Love knows how to forgive. Love
cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Don’t pay much attention to
fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are
feeding it, and it will grow.
Love never dies through
separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness;
never by separation.
U bring a beautiful prince;in
the morning he becomes a frog! Every prince turns into a frog in the end. And
then you are puzzled: What went wrong.
Whatsoever you possess will not
give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
To create guilt, all that you
need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are
simply mistakes, human.
Your politicians, priests,
parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can
be controlled and manipulated.
Life is not given to you to
murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and
to celebrate.
Don’t expect, and there will be
no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
To choose is to choose a
prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless
is to be right.
You cannot think about love.
Either you can love, or you cannot, but you cannot think about it.
Don’t go on with borrowed
knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain
ignorant.
It is better to be ignorant; at
least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
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.
You have to drop all your defenses,
only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things,
not only from others but from ourselves.
Whoever may have died right
now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are
not going to be here forever.
It is always death that comes
before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your
desires are not going to be fulfilled.
A borrowed truth is the
greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own
experience, utterly your own experience.
Only people suffering from
inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never
compares himself with anybody else.
Respect your life. Out of that
respect you will start respecting life in others.
Dropping the mask and bringing
out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
Don’t postpone anything
beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
Your honesty, your love, your
compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and
scriptures.
Love brings freedom. Loyalty
brings slavery.
I am not anti-life as other
religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
These are the only two real
emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear,
you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.