Osho Quotes

My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

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

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.

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

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.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

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

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

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

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

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