Osho quotes and aphorisms, famous phrases and great words of wisdom from the great Indian nonconformist thinker, philosopher, mystic and spiritual master.
OSHO – never born, never died. He only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931, and January 19, 1990.
Osho Epitaph
Never speak of me in the past tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
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A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality. (Here are a few more good parenting tips)
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
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A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.
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Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
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All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
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Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!
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Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead.
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Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
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Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
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Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
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Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
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By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
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Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
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Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.
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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.
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Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
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Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
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Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.
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Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
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Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
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Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
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Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.
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Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
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Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
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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.
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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
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Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
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Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that they are fools, so they are not worried about what others think about them.
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
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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.
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything.
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Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point.
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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
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Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
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God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
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God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
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Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed – and that you are, you already are.
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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.
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
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I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
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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.
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I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
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I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.
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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.
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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
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If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
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If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?
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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
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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.
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If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
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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.
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
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If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
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In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
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Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
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It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
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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.
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It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
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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.
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It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
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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.
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It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.
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It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.
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Just get out of your own way.
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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
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Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
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Life begins where fear ends.
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
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Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
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Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
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Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
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Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.
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Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
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Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
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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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Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
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Love in itself, or just having a relationship with someone, is not going to give you happiness, unless you bring happiness with you.
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Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
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Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.
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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage, everything misfires.
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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.
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Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
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Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
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Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.
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Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
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Love never dies through separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness; never by separation.
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Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.
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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
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Man is always exploited through fear.
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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.
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
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My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
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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.
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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
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Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
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Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
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No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.
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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
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Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
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Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
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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.
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Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.
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One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
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Only idiots are not controversial.
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Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
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Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
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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.
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
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Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously.
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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
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Suicide leads nowhere, it simply enters your consciousness into another womb of a lower kind, because you could not manage to live on a higher level.
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Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.”
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
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That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
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The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.
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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
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The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
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The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
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The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the others. You are slave. You are yet not free. You are in bondage.
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The person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
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The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
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The society is ill;individuals are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
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The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
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The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.
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There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
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These are the only two real emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.
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This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.
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This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
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To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
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To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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U bring a beautiful prince;in the morning he becomes a frog! Every prince turns into a frog in the end. And then you are puzzled: What went wrong.
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Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
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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.
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Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
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When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
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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.
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
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Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
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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.
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Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.
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You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.
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You are creating your own hell.
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
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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.
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You cannot think about love. Either you can love, or you cannot, but you cannot think about it.
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You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
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You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.
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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.
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Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
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Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
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