Osho’s real name would be Chandra Mohan Jain, born on December 11, 1931. A rebel from his younger days, he was a gifted child, good at school, and grew up and lived with his maternal grandparents. He first got a chance at Hitkarini college. However, he later got admission in DNJ College because he got into an argument with his professor and was therefore banned from entering classes except during exams.
He first started working with a newspaper and slowly and steadily started giving speeches that impressed people. His way of thinking, his ideology, logical analysis, and philosophical talk really impressed everyone. He then attempted to get his master’s in philosophy which he passed with flying colors. Moving to Mumbai, he presented and focused on Dynamic Meditation, getting his first disciples from there in the year 1970. He has suffered from a lot of controversy in his life due to the bad reputation created by the media on some kind of controversial topic Osho had spoken on.
After he was banned from the USA being behind bars for a few days, he then came back to India and started living in the Pune ashram as well as worked for his foundation till he died in 1990. His quotes are famous for helping people living life scientifically, enriching the soul the right way. Here are some quotes to go through.
Best Osho Quotes
- There is no sorrow except in captivity.
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- One who” knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough
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- No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberate
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- Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
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- 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.
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- The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; It is to live in love, and trust; It is to move in the unknown.
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- Never interfere in anybody´s life and don´t allow anybody to interfere in your life.
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- Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.
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- Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.
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- All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.
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- 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.
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- Every being is unique. God never creates carbon copies; he always creates originals. He is truly a creator. He never repeats but man goes on living in imitation we are trying to be somebody else which is impossible.
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- Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.
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- Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.
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- Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
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- There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.
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- 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.
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- Humanity will really be born only the day the individual is respected in his rebellion.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
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- Life begins where fear ends.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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- Relaxation is like a flowering; you cannot force it. You have to understand the whole phenomenon—why you are so active, why so much occupation with activity, why you are obsessed with it.
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- Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
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- 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.
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- The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
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- When you want to climb to the highest peak of the mountains, it is arduous. And when you have reached the peak and you lie down, whispering with the clouds, looking at the sky, the joy that fills your heart—that joy always comes whenever you reach any peak of creativity.
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- Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- A relaxed person is simply non-obsessive, and the energy starts accumulating within him. He conserves his energy, and then when the moment for action comes his total being flows into it.
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- 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.
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- Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
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- The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
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- 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.
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- Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.
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- Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
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- Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed– borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
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- Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
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- To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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- 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.
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- Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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- In love the other is important; in lust you are important.
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- One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
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- A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.
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- A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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- All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
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- 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.
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- There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.
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- There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.
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- It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
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- Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know – and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
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- It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and everybody dies with an open hand!
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- You don’t want to lose your old friend – the misery – You have invested too much into false – Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true – to be naked as you are.
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- What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
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- You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung. It is a dance to be danced…
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- Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.
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More osho quotes
- No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
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- In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.
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- The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life to Become a Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
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- There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.
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- Lovers never surrender to each other; lovers simply surrender to love.
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- You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.
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- The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.
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- 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.
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- Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
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- 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.
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- Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
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- Crowds create illusions.
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- Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
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- 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.
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- Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
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- A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.
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- This is the secret, THE secret … De-automatize.
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- 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.
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- If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love…
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- Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
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- You can love as many people as you want – that does not mean one day you will go bankrupt, and you will have to declare, ‘Now I have no love.’ You cannot go bankrupt as far as love is concerned.
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- 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.
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- Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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- All that you call sin is nothing but mistakes. And mistakes are the way of learning.
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- Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.
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- 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.
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- The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.
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- Dance while you are alive. Breathe blissfully while you are alive. Sing while you are alive. Love, meditate while you are alive.
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- Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.
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- Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
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- Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
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- 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.
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- The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience.
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- The small flower is as total as the sun.
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- A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.
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- And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about.
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- The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave.
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- Sing your song, and if nobody listens, sing it alone and enjoy it.
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- There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair.
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- No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.
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- Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
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- Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.
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- Misery is an indication that you are in conflict.
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- Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.
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- Express your uniqueness in whatsoever you do. Express your individuality. Let existence be proud of you. Life will not be felt like a drag; it will become a fragrance.
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- Life is not a problem to be solved, it’s a mystery to be lived.
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- Security is of the world; insecurity is of the divine.
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- Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.
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- The ordinary love is a demand; the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving.
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- Real love is considerate but has no concern.
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- Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.
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- All lovers are in trouble. The trouble is not personal; it is in the very nature of things. They would not have been.
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- The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love – everything disappears.
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- A morality that comes with effort is immoral. A morality that comes without effort is the only morality there is.
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- Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.
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- You cannot step in the same river twice,” because it is always flowing.
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- Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!
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- If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.
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- My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.
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- Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.
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- Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.
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- Respect your uniqueness and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
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- 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. You are your hell and your heaven too.
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- You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
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- Love is the very meaning of life. If there is no love, life become meaningless.
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- I am against all organized religions, without any exception, for the simple reason that truth cannot be organized, love cannot be organized. – It is not politics.
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- Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
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- There is no need to be more – you are enough. Everybody is enough.
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- You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
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- The First Lesson of Love Is to Learn How to Be Alone.
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- Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.
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- Don’t allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them.
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- 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.
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- Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just pure awareness.
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- 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.
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- Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
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- Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation, the most beautiful way.
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- There is no other greater ecstasy, than to know who you are.
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- Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
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- Learn to love, and drop all that goes against love. It is the greatest art in existence, to be able to love.
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- The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
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- Just be silent, utterly silent. Let peace descend over you and revelation of the mysterious truth of existence is yours.
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- If you are peaceful the whole world becomes peaceful to you. It is just a reflection. Whatsoever you are is reflected all over. Everyone becomes a mirror.
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- Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
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- In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence.
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- Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you – wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in love with someone – it is a question of being.
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- When two persons are independent, only then there is love, love can flow only between two freedoms.
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- The one you are looking for is you.
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- If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere!
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- Small things can become so beautiful. A little caring, a little sharing, that’s all life is.
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- If you love a person, you will not interfere his personal life. You would not dare to break boundaries of his inner world.
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- Everything starts with love, remember; Love is the ultimate law. Then prayer, mercy, grace, follow of their own accord.
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- Love is the most healing force in the world; nothing goes deeper than love. It heals not only the body, not only the mind, but also the soul.
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- Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow.
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- The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere – and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes.
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- When you trust yourself you trust the whole Universe also.
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- A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
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- The fully matured man has no fear, no defense, he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.
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- Live dangerously! Only the eagle knows the aloneness of the heights, the silence of heights, the danger of the heights! But without knowing danger, one never grows.
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- It is does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
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- Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness.
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- If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.
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Conclusion
His quotes have inspired thousands of people to stay true to themselves and that too logically. There are several books on Osho quotes that help people to live a peaceful life and stay mindful.
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