Osho

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

“You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to be a fool, you will start suspecting it. If so many people think you a fool your self-confidence will be lost. And if everybody goes on repeating that you are a fool, sooner or later you will come to believe it.Only a wise man cannot be deceived, he can appear as a fool.Have you observed yourself? You are always trying to exhibit your wisdom, always in search of a victim to whom you can show your knowledge, just searching, hunting for somebody weaker than you – then you will jump in and you will show your wisdom.A wise man need not be an exhibitionist. Whatsoever is, is. He is not aware of it, he is not in any hurry to show it. If you want to find it, you will have to make efforts. If you have to know whether he is gentle or not, that is going to be your discovery.”

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.”

“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.”

“A wise man is one who creates a harmony between head, heart, and body. In this harmony one comes to the revelation of the source of one’s life, the very center, the soul. And that is the greatest ecstasy possible – not only to human beings but in this whole universe, nothing more is possible. It is already too much.”

“Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.”

“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don’t long – just be. Don’t even look – just be! Don’t think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.”

“Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.”

“החשיבה היא אנליטית, היא מפרידה, מחלקת דברים. הרגש מחבר, יוצר סינתזה, הופך דברים לאחד.”

“אל תחשוב במושגי פורקן. הישאר עם אנרגיה זו הגואה על גדותיה.”

“הישאר עם אהובתך, כמו הפכתם לאחד.”

“הלכתי בדרך שלי. לךָ תהיה הדרך שלך.”

“קל זה נכון. התחל קל וזה נכון.”

“כשהנעל מתאימה, הרגל נשכחת.”

“אדם חי, שהוא חי באמת, חי חיים חיוניים, ילך תמיד אל תוך הבלתי ידוע. יש שם סכנה, אך הוא ייטול את הסיכון. הלב מוכן תמיד לקחת את הסיכון.”

“לחיות באהבה ואמון, לנוע בתוך הלא־נודע.”

“להיות אמיץ פירושו לחיות עם הלב.”

“משמעותה של אהבה, שלפחות בנוכחותו של אדם אחד אתה יכול להיות עירום לגמרי.”

“כל אחד משתוקק לאינטימיות, כי בלעדיה, אתה לבדך ביקום הזה.”