Osho Quotes

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

In the marketplace of ideas, a dime is expensive than the cost price of beauty

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.

Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments.

Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.

God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.

Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones.

respect life, revere life.there is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.

Include and grow. Include and expand.

Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

Anyone who fights the light belongs to no other place than the abode of darkness

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Meditation is a flower, and compassion is its fragrance.

If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.

If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.

Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the mind will have less a grip on you.

Remember, whenever you have two things, two alternatives, choose the new one, choose the harder, choose the one in which more awareness will be needed.

One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.