Osho quotes have taken over the internet. To all those who haven’t heard of Osho: Rajneesh, also known as Acharya Rajneesh, and also known as Osho, was an Indian spiritual guru and philosopher. We can find many brilliant Osho quotes on Life, Love, Relationships, Meditation and self-love.
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Best Osho Quotes:
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
Life begins where fear ends.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.
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.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
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
A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!
Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.
Osho Quotes on Relationships:
You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.
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.
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.
Love is the goal, life is the journey.
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.
Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.
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 Quotes on life:
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
A man who is 100% sane is dead.
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
There is a great difference between trust and belief.
Trust is personal,
Belief is social.
They were afraid of your authentic love because authentic love is beyond their control. You are possessed by it. You are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings. And the most basic thing which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love because if you are possessed by love you can go even against the whole world.
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.
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
The Real Self is dangerous: dangerous to the established church, dangerous to the state, dangerous to the crowd, dangerous to tradition, because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual.
Crowds create illusions.
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 dancing…
It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and everybody dies with an open hand!
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 the existence and become part of it.
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.
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.
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.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
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 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.
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.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
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.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondage. And when love flows with freedom there is a beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.
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 exist in time, but you belong to
eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no
birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of
your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation; Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.
Doubt–because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self-knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfil this responsibility, you will be able to fulfil many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities–not as something to be done, not as a duty to be fulfilled, but as a joy to do.
I love because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.
In love the other is important; in lust you are important
There is a deep desire in everyone to commit suicide for the simple reason, that life seems to be meaningless. People go on living, not because they love life, they go on living just because they are afraid to commit suicide. There is a desire to, and in many ways, they do commit suicide. Monks and nuns have committed psychological suicide, they have renounced life. And these suicidal people have dominated humanity for centuries. They have condemned everything that is beautiful. They have praised something imaginary and they have condemned the real; the real is mundane and the imaginary is sacred. My whole effort here is to help you see that the real is sacred, that this very world is sacred, that this very life is divine. But the way to see it is first to inquire within. Unless you start feeling the source of light within yourself, you will not be able to see that light anywhere else. First, it has to be experienced within one’s own being, then it is found everywhere. Then the whole existence becomes so full of light, so full of joy, so full of meaning and poetry, that each moment one feels grateful for all that God has given, for all that he goes on giving. Sannyas is simply a decision to turn in, to look in. The most primary thing is to find your own centre. Once it is found, once you are centred, once you are bathed in your own light you have a different vision, a different perspective, and the whole of life becomes golden. Then even dust is divine. Then life is so rich, so abundantly rich that one can only feel tremendous gratitude towards existence. That gratitude becomes prayer. Before that, all prayer is false.
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.
If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else id 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.
Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know – and all that knowledge will come out of your experience. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
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.
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.
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
Osho Quotes on Self-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.
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.
Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.
The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.
You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become freer. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed– borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
I give a fuck if you’re a damn Jew, or a Serbo-Kroat, an American or the devil knows what! – What are your human qualities, if I may ask?
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
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.
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.
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.
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