Osho Quotes

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions

The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

Opportunity has got numerous appointments to keep, so it can't be held to ransom at your doorstep. Just a knock is enough for a man who is alert and expectant!

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

Anger is a certified destroyer, from its birth till now, it is yet to build a lasting legacy

Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.

Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it.

And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy, you never look deep, you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover.

Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you, your awareness, your being conscious, mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.

It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.

Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures

Great men are made in the crucible of experiences

Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

They happen only when you are distant, aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Be — don't try to become

Love is the key, love is the secret.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

Enjoy this moment because it may not come again.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Dance madly as if all of life is meant for dancing and celebrating.

The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.

Creators almost always go mad.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.

The only way to go beyond death is to accept death. Then it disappears. The only way to be fearless is to accept fear. Then the energy is released and becomes freedom.

The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary!

Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.