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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
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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.
? Osho
881 likes like
Be
don't try to become
? Osho
tags: being, osho 814 likes like
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 t
ree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger wi
ll be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.
? Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
tags: happiness, life, sadness 748 likes like
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you lov
e life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little mo
re music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
? Osho
tags: beauty, creative, creativity, dance, life, music 656 likes like
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is as
ked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
? Osho
550 likes like
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
? Osho
tags: miracle, oaho 464 likes like
Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small v
oice. 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, an
d you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being ones
elf, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all
about.
? Osho
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Life begins where fear ends.

? Osho
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You can
not be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
? Osho
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Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fu
lfill, 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
407 likes like
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not fin
d 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 re
ady-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fl
y, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no foo
tprints left behind.
? Osho
tags: advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, medi
tation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher 401 likes like
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 th
e 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 yo
u 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 fir
st time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
? Osho
tags: enlightenment, meditation, zen 379 likes like
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love bec
omes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in l
ove - now you are love.
? Osho
tags: love 346 likes like
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own uncons
ciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make
you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
? Osho
324 likes like
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be rea
lized.
? Osho, The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
tags: awareness, life, truth 317 likes like
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
? Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
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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 scriptu
res; you will believe only in your own experience.
? Osho
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The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
? Osho
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. Th
e woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." a
nd 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 m
other for through you all she will truly never die.
? Osho
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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 t
here is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfe
ct, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice i
n this imperfection is my whole message.
? Osho
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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.
? Osho
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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 destr
oyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
? Osho
tags: advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, medi
tation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher 226 likes like
Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown
? Osho
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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 le
ft me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been
a loser
? Osho
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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 f
alse center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are sayi
ng about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying t
o satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying t
o decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what other
s say, you should start looking inside yourself
Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not consciou
s of the self at all. You don t know who you are. If you had known, then there wou
ld have been no problem then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worri
ed 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-consci
ousness indicates that you have not come home yet.
? Osho
tags: ego, meditation, osho, self-consciousness 210 likes like
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
203 likes like
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how t
o love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmoniou
s dialogue.
? Osho
tags: love 201 likes like
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 fut
ure 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
195 likes like
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 your
self.
? Osho
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