Top Osho quotes
Osho lived from December 11th, 1931 – January 19th, 1990. He was an Indian spiritual leader and teacher, as well as a mystic. His birth name was Chandra Mohan Jain. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and he was actually only known as Osho during the last years of his life and beyond.
- “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
- “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 its balance.” ― Osho Rajneesh
- “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
- “I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. 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 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. That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.” ― Osho
- “Life begins where fear ends.” ― Osho Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh
- “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle” ― Osho
- “One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.” ― 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
- “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
- “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” ― 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
- “Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself… Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant! When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.” ― 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 fewer people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” ― Osho
- “The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s 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 another 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
- “Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown” ― 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
- “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 existence, and become part of it.” ― Osho
- “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” and so in you, the child your mother lives on and through your family continues to live… so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.” ― Osho
- “That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let the past move your mind; don’t let the 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
- “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
- “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently” ― 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
- “Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. 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
- “Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.”
Osho Quotes On Life That Will Change You Forever
- Whether you need a pick-me-up, or you want to become more enlightened, these Osho quotes on life will change the way you think, act, and live. Read on!
- Creativity doesn’t know any rules. Microsoft and Apple wouldn’t have come to existence if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had not dropped out of college. You would never drive a real electric car if Musk didn’t take the enormous risks that he took. That’s the thing about great people. They don’t care about the rules.
- It is important to live in the present. We often haunt ourselves with ghosts of the past and our distorted image of the future. But the truth is that you only have the present moment to use your potential.
- Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
- Your soul, your spirit isn’t composed of all the stories you tell yourself. We all lose people, money, and things at some point in our lives. What remains is you. Nobody can destroy you.
- 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.
- We need to appreciate people for who they are and not what we want them to be. When we tell our partners that they cannot do this or cannot have that, we try to own their lives. And the minute we do it, the love disappears.
- Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
- Become aware of how you live and you’ll live life in its full potential. We sit with our friends and stare into our smartphones. We eat our emotions with junk food. We open Facebook a gazillion times a day only to get rid of boredom. But only if we were really present could we tune into our creativity and true essence.
- Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Don’t try to copy others. Stereotypes don’t define you. Don’t label yourself with words such as “nerd”, “wimp”, “rebels“, “emo” or “stud”. Labels look good on things and bad on people.
- 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. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
Osho quotes on love
- “Yes, I would like you to love yourself because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.” – 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
- “Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.” – Osho
- “I teach you to be more conscious. And love will come as you become more conscious: it is a guest that comes, that comes inevitably to those who are ready and prepared to receive it.” – Osho
- “Love is a rose flower in your being, but prepare your being. Dispel the darkness and the unconsciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come of its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect.” – 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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Become alert. Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.” – Osho
- “Love needs immense consciousness. Love is a meeting of two souls, and lust is the meeting of two bodies. Lust is an animal; love is divine. But unless you know that you are a soul, you cannot understand what love is.” – Osho
- “Love is a by-product of meditation.” – 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
Inspirational Osho quotes
- “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” – Osho
- “Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.” – Osho
- “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.” – Osho
- “Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.” – 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
- “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” – Osho
Osho quotes about life
- “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.” – Osho
- “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.” – 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 live my life based on two 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
- “Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowledge will come out of your experience.” – 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
- “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.” – 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
- “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
- “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
- “One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really great cosmic laughter.” – Osho
- “Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.” – Osho
Osho quotes about mindfulness
- “Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.” – 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
- “No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.” – Osho
- “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.” – Osho
- “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.” – Osho
- “Discover yourself, otherwise, you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.” – Osho
- “Awareness functions almost like magic.” – Osho
- “Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.” – 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
- “The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.” – 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
- “That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.” – Osho
More Osho quotes
- “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.” – Osho
- “To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.” – Osho
- “Life begins where fear ends.” – Osho
- “Love is the goal, life is the journey.” – Osho
- “Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.” – 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
- “Courage is a love affair with the unknown.” – Osho
- “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.” Osho
- “A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.” Osho
- “The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.” Osho
- “There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.” Osho
- “Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things. When the whole is available.” Osho
- “To be creative means to be in love with life.” Osho
- “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it does 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
- “Be – don’t try to become.” Osho
- “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.” Osho
- “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” Osho
- “Courage is a love affair with the unknown.” Osho
- “Rather than thinking how to get love, start giving. If you give, you get. Everybody is interested in getting and nobody seems to enjoy giving. Love is not a business, so stop being businesslike.” Osho
- “Don’t be angry at life. It is not the life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.” Osho
- “Let it all go. see what stays.” Osho
- “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.” Osho
- “Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.” Osho
- “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” Osho
- “Total emptiness means the whole cosmos, unlimited in your hands.” Osho
- “You don’t know yourself – how can you know others.” Osho
- “The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions 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
- “Your whole idea is about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” Osho
- “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” Osho
- “The mind is a beautiful servant but a dangerous master.” Osho
- “Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.” 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.” Osho
- “I live my life based on two 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
- “You cannot cling to anything in a changing world.” Osho
- “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.” Osho
- “If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.” Osho
- “Live in joy.” 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
- “If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” Osho
- “Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.” 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
- “The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.” Osho
- “The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind.” Osho
- “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something to be realized.” Osho
- “Real education will be to bring out what is in you.” Osho
- “Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.” Osho
Top Osho Quotes
- “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.” , Osho Quotes on life
- “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.”
- “It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.”
- “The higher the peak is, the deeper the valley will be. Near Everest, the deepest valley exists.”
- “Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a Witness.”
- “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.”
- “Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.”
- “Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.”
- “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.”
- “Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.”
- “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.”
- “Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”
- “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.”
- “Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid 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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Loneliness is missing the other. Aloneness is finding oneself. Out of aloneness, a totally new kind of love arises.”
- “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.”
- “You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.”
- “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.”
- “They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”
- “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 Quotes on friendship
- “Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”
- “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.”
- “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 Quotes on truth
- “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.”
- “Don’t be so short of trust, and don’t be in a hurry. If I say something, wait, search, and you will find the way.”
- “A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.”
Deep And Meaningful Osho Quotes
- “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.”
- “Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.”
- “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.”
- “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 its balance.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.”
- “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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?”
- “It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and everybody dies with an open hand.”
- “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.”
- “Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.”
- “I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you tremendous power, a spiritual force.”
- “Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and love is destroyed because of that demand.”
- “My whole love and respect are for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has the courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.”
- “Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.”
- “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.”
- “No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.”
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