Osho Quotes on
Love
Be like an alone peak high in
the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
Relationship is the need of
those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and
yet they remain alone.
It is a strange experience,
that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of
people. I have never been a loser.
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.
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.
Take life easily, lovingly,
playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the
soul and playfulness the greatest health.
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.
It does not matter if you are a
rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
Discover yourself, otherwise
you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
Just get out of your own way.
Only idiots are not
controversial.
It is because nobody has been
teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a
man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Mind is the illusion that which
is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
Respect your uniqueness, and
drop comparison. Relax into your being.
No, I don’t want to give my
people sticks. I want to give them eyes.
Love cannot be taught, it can
only be caught.
Love is happy when it is able
to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
The knowledgeable person lives
with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation
mark.
A serious person can never be
innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
Man is born only as a
potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become
a flower for himself and for others.
Desire disappears as you become
more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire
at all.
Hell is our creation, and we
create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our
spontaneity. It is where we always are.
Real love is not an escape from
loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being
alone that one would like to share.
When you are different the
whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world.
It is only a ques of creating a different you.
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.
Accept yourself as you are. And
that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your
training, education, your culture.
Sharing is the most precious
religious experience. Sharing is good.
You can go on changing the
outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the
outer can never be perfect.
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.
Accept yourself as you are. And
that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your
training, education, your culture.
Life exists without rules;
games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false
religion is a game.
If you work without love, you
are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor.
Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
The only authentic
responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on
you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
Truth is not something outside
to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
A comfortable, convenient life
is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable
life is in the grave.
Love is authentic only when it
gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s
individuality, his privacy.
Man is always exploited through
fear.
If whatsoever you have been
living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
It’s not a question of learning
much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.
If you love yourself, you love
others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it
is only you mirrored.
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.
Bravery does not mean being
fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
God is a person; godliness is a
quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
When your ego is no more, only
then will you know who you are.
To avoid pain, they avoid
pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
Anywhere everywhere! Anything
anyhow! just dance!
The word devil is very
beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived
becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.