Thoughts by Osho Quotes in English Love Life Quotations
Thought of the Day by 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.
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it. |
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. |
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. |
Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face. |
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it. |
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being. |
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. |
Man is always exploited through fear. |
Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance! |
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. |
This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation. |
I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers. |
You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear. |
The intelligent person depends on his won insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself. |
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery. |
Love a woman as a goddess, then love becomes worship. |
Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught. |
Love is the goal, life is the journey. |
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. |
Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. Rajneesh Quotes |
To be creative means to be in love with life. |
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow. |
Real love is considerate but has no concern. |
Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love. |
Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual. |
Love lives in waiting - dies in meeting, becomes ordinary. |
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. |
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE. |
Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought. |
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. |
If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world. |
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. |
Love never dies through separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness; never by separation. |
Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish. |
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end. |
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. |
If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. |
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage, everything misfires. |
I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love. |
Courage is a love affair with the unknown. |
If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means. |
Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false. |
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. |
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all 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. |
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. |
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy. |
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. |
By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him. |
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. |
Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life. |
If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having. |
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great. |
You cannot think about love. Either you can love, or you cannot, but you cannot think about it. |
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile. |
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. |
We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle. |
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin. |
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. |
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. |
Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy. |
The society is ill;individuals are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization. |
Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar. |
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful. |
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. |
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor. |
People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable. |
If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love... |
The ordinary love is a demand, the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving. |
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself. |
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire. |
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. |
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. |
Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love. |
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. |
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness. |
Life begins where fear ends. |
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. |
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity. |
The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself. |
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. |
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous! |
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. |
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. |
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell. |
Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. |
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense. |
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. |
Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. |
Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal. |
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health. |
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave. |
Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. |
Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others. |
Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. |
Never interfere in anybody´s life and don´t allow anybody to interfere in your life. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Rajneesh Quotes in English |
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. |
The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind. |
The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. |
Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness. |
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. |
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind. |
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious. |
If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all. |
Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. |
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. |
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! |
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. |
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. |
Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation. |
Your honesty, your love, your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures. |
It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much. |
All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust. |
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good. |
Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now. |
Experience life in all possible ways -- |
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. |
There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean. |
The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole. |
We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen. |
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human. |
The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid. |
To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself. |
You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations. |
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. |
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. |
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble. |
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. |
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. |
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. |
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. |
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. * |
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. |
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game. |
Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed - and that you are, you already are. |
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled. |
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. |
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. |
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. |
The more you share your inner wealth, the more you have it. |
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand. |
No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes. |
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. |
You can become happy just by deciding to be happy. |
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle |
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings. |
If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right. |
Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy. |
Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead. |
Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation. |
One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin. |
Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension. |
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing. |
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. |
Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW. |
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. |
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. |
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. |
Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus. |
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. |
When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite. |
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. |
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. |
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. |
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. |
There is great difference between trust and belief. |
The way of the heart is the way of courage. |
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much. |
Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind. |
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are. |
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness. |
Don’t analyze, celebrate it. |
You are creating your own hell. |
Only silence communicates the truth as it is. |
Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.” |
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today. |
Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment. |
NOW is the only reality – all else is either memory or imagination. |
Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . . |
If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it? |
Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also. |
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment. |
Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation. |
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. |
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life. |
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. |
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. |
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth - truth is also seeking you. |
Total emptiness means the whole cosmos, unlimited in your hands. |
It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand ! |
Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. |
Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego. |
Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously. “. |
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything. |
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. |
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. |
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right. |
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. |
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. |
Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else. |
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. |
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom. |
Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . . |
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable. |
That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. |
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. |
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears. |
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. |
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. |
When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. |
Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. |
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. |
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. |
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way. |
Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting. |
Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. |
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges. |
Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures. |
Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing. |
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant. |
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear. |
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. |
Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer. |
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. |
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest! |
Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure. |
God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. |
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. |
There is no other greater ecstasy than to know who you are. |
Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also. |
People are not things, you cannot have ownership. |
The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master. |
Just get out of your own way. |
Only idiots are not controversial. |
Awareness functions almost like magic. |
A man who is 100% sane is dead. |
Crowds create illusions. |
You cannot cling to anything in a changing world. |
Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you. |
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. |
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. |
Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a Witness. |
Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom. |
The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind. |
There is no one lonelier than God! |
Include and grow. Include and expand. |
A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within. |
Tension means you want to be something else which you are not. |
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself. |
A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. |
Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree. |
Sing your song, and if nobody listens, sing it alone and enjoy it. |
God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it. |
Go into your mind, analyze your mind. Somewhere you have tricked yourself. |
Yoga means now. You will have to be a harmony. You will have to become one. |
Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable. |
Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. |
Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full. |
All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being. |
A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. |
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. |
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics. |
Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it. |
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest! |
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. |
Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality. |
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! |
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. |
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant. |
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. |
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about. |
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique. |
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. |
“Never speak of me in the past tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. |
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. |
Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. |
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. |
The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue. |
There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair. |
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. * |
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. |
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. |
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. |
Dance while you are alive. Breathe blissfully while you are alive. Sing while you are alive. Love, meditate while you are alive. |
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness. |
There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. |
People sometimes ask me , what religion are you ? I always answer by saying, ''Iam a little part of all religions and and a big part of no religion. |
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished. |
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. |
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. |
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. |
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. |
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. |
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. |
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing. |
First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you. |
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive? |
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. |
The only way to go beyond death is to accept death. Then it disappears. The only way to be fearless is to accept fear. Then the energy is released and becomes freedom. |
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. |
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! |
This is one of my favorite Osho quotes on happiness and sadness. Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
You need either to create something or discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself but do something with your freedom. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them. |
