A figure with a long-bearded face, deep eyes, and a strong voice, he was a scholar, a philosopher, a rebellious and enlightened person, and a thinker who shattered thousands of social myths. He had a great analytical and logical mind. Although there are over 650 of his Osho books available based on trance-based scripts of his speeches, he has not changed or modified his speeches on any subject. He is no longer alive today, but he has never seen or heard of a more sincere and logical person.
This man is Chandra Mohan Jain. Also known as Acharya Rajnish, people commonly call him OSHO. Osho’s quotes on life, self, and relationships have inspired millions of people around the world to live fulfilling lives free from materialistic pursuits.
As a young intellectual, Rajneesh visited teachers of various religious traditions working in India to gain insight into life, love, and relationships. He achieved spiritual awakening at the age of 21 and believed that individual experiences were central to his spiritual life and that such experiences could not be merged into a single belief system.
The first group of Westerners came to Rajneesh in the early 1970s. In 1974 a new headquarters for his movement was established in Pune. The main practice taught at the Center was dynamic meditation, a process designed to allow people to experience the presence of God. The
The Center has also developed a wide range of programs in New Age healing practices adapted from the West. Rajneesh was notorious for his progressive approach to life and its complexities, some of which were controversial.
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Osho Quotes on Life
1. “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.” -Osho
2. “Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.” -Osho
3. “You are living in one of the most alive times ever.” -Osho
4. “If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.” -Osho
5. “Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.” -Osho
6. “Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.” -Osho
7. “The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.” -Osho
8. “The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.” -Osho
9. “Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with “that which is” is the truth.” -Osho
10. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” -Osho
11. “Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.” -Osho
12. “Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you.” -Osho
13. “I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.” -Osho
14. “I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.” -Osho
Deep Powerful Osho Quotes
15. “Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain for ever and ever.” -Osho
16. “Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.” -Osho
17. “A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.” -Osho
18. “Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfillment, a deep rejoicing.” -Osho
19. “The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe.” -Osho
20. “Wherever you will look, you will only find human beings. Nowhere will you find humanity.” -Osho
21. “If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.” -Osho
22. “Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.” -Osho
23. “Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.” -Osho
24. “Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.” -Osho
25. “Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.” -Osho
26. “A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.” -Osho
27. “There is only one thing that can make you an emperor and that is your own being. Just find it.” -Osho
28. “If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.” -Osho
29. “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” -Osho
30. “Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.” -Osho
31. “It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!” -Osho
32. “You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.” -Osho
33. “The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simplicity.” -Osho
34. “If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.” -Osho
35. “Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.” -Osho
36. “I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.” -Osho
37. “The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere.” -Osho
38. “The moment you see that whatsoever you are is your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances.” -Osho
39. “Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.” -Osho
40. “Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.” -Osho
Osho Quotes on Happiness
41. “I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.” -Osho
42. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” -Osho
43. “The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.” -Osho
44. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.” -Osho
45. “Money, power, prestige, are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!” -Osho
46. “Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.” -Osho
47. “Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.” -Osho
48. “Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.” -Osho
Osho Quotes on Love
49. “If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.” -Osho
50. “Life hs to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.” -Osho
51. “I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.” -Osho
52. “Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.” -Osho
53. “Let your life be integrated at the center of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.” -Osho
54. “There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.” -Osho
55. “If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.” -Osho
56. “You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life.” -Osho
57. “Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.” -Osho
58. “The first thing that should be as a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.” -Osho
59. “Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul.” -Osho
60. “Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.” -Osho
Osho Quotes on Success
61. “Success is never ending, failure is never final.” -Osho
62. “Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.” -Osho
63. “Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.” -Osho
64. “Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.” -Osho
65. “Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.” -Osho
66. “Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.” -Osho
67. “Love, and the earth becomes a paradise again.” -Osho
68. “Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.” -Osho
69. “I have been teaching you nothing else except to be more alive, more loving, more singing, more dancing.” -Osho
70. “Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.” -Osho
Osho Good Morning Quotes
71. “Good Morning! Life begins where fear ends.” -Osho
72. “Desire is beautiful, there is nothing wrong with it, only free it from objects. Freedom from objects and desire is divine.” -Osho
73. “If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.” -Osho
74. “When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.” -Osho
75. “To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.” -Osho
76. “Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the center, fear always comes from the periphery.” -Osho
77. “Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.” -Osho
78. “When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.” -Osho
79. “Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.” -Osho
80. “Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.” -Osho
81. “A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.” -Osho
82. “The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven.” -Osho
83. “Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.” -Osho
84. “The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.” -Osho
85. “Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.” -Osho
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