Osho Quotes

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

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.

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.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

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.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

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.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

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.

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.

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.

NOW is the only reality – all else is either memory or imagination.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .

If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.”

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.

Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.

Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.

If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?

Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.

All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.

It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!

If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.

When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.

The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.

One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.

I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.

Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead.

Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.

Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.

Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.

If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.

Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.

Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.

The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.

Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.

Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.

My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.