Osho quotes and aphorisms
Osho quotes and aphorisms Osho quotes and aphorisms, famous phrases and great words of wisdom from the great Indian nonconformist thinker, philosopher, mystic and spiritual master. Never speak of me in the past tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. Osho 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. Osho A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. Osho 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) Osho A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave. Osho A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious. Osho 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. Osho 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? 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 All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being. Osho All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust. Osho Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing. Osho Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance! Osho Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead. Osho Be aware - deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego. Osho Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! Osho 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. Osho Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. Osho Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it. Osho 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. Osho Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings. Osho Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. Osho Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment. Osho Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. Osho Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness. Osho 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. Osho Don’t analyze, celebrate it. Osho Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. Osho Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension. Osho Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. Osho Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation. Osho Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant. Osho 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. Osho Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now. Osho Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full. 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 Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. Osho Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation. Osho Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right. Osho Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure. Osho Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that they are fools, so they are not worried about what others think about them. Osho Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much. Osho 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. Osho Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. Osho Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. 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 Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. Osho 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. Osho Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree. Osho God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it. Osho God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. Osho Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. Osho Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed - and that you are, you already are. Osho 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. Osho Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. Osho I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love. Osho I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers. 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. Osho I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. Osho I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear. Osho 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. Osho If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having. Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all. Osho If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right. Osho If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it? Osho If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means. Osho
Osho aphorisms and quotes 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. Osho If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable. Osho If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great. Osho 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 If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. Osho If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself. Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. Osho Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness. Osho Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges. Osho It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom. Osho It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest! Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much. Osho Just get out of your own way. Osho Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique. Osho Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation. Osho Life begins where fear ends. Osho Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game. Osho 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. Osho Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense. Osho Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness. Osho 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! Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity. Osho Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. Osho 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. Osho Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery. Osho Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught. Osho Love in itself, or just having a relationship with someone, is not going to give you happiness, unless you bring happiness with you. Osho Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow. Osho 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. Osho Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy. Osho Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. Osho Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. Osho Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage, everything misfires. Osho 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. Osho Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy. Osho Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought. Osho Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love. Osho Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. Osho Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary. Osho Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin. Osho Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. Osho Love never dies through separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness; never by separation. Osho Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face. Osho Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. Osho Man is always exploited through fear. Osho 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. Osho Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. Osho Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life. Osho My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment. 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 Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears. Osho Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also. Osho Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal. Osho 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. Osho No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes. Osho Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus. Osho Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. Osho Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy. Osho NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. Osho 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. Osho 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. Osho Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. Osho One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything. Osho One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin. Osho Only idiots are not controversial. Osho Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else. Osho Only silence communicates the truth as it is. Osho Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. Osho People are not things, you cannot have ownership. Osho People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable. 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 Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting. Osho Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. Osho 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. Osho Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful. Osho Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. Osho Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you. Osho Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously. Osho Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others. Osho Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being. Osho Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. Osho Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good. Osho 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. Osho Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.” Osho Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health. Osho That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. Osho That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. Osho 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. Osho The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole. Osho The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind. Osho The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.