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All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Love is the true God - not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.

Love is the
ecstasy when the walls between two people crumble down, when two lives meet, when two lives
unite.

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.

If you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.

Existence creates only originals; it does not believe in carbon copies. A

The idea of a separate center is the root of the ego.

And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.

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.

Watchfulness, or alertness, or awareness, or consciousness, are all different names of the same phenomenon of witnessing. That is the key word. Miss

Move in time with life; be in perfect accord with its changing music

Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.

Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Remember one thing. That you should not leave the Earth until you have made it a little more beautiful. A little lovelier. A little more loving.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

I HAVE TOLD you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Today here and now, at the age of four, we eat from the tree of knowledge and have fallen from grace.

Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

just patience is needed and nothing is permanent." And

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

All your fears are byproducts of identification. You love a person and with the love, in the same parcel, comes fear- the person may leave you.

The small flower is as total as the sun.

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

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

Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness. Meditation is not a technique at all! This

Training is needed, but training is not the goal. Training is just a means.

They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there

Even when you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there." "To

Meditation simply says how to go withinward: whether there is a soul or not doesn't matter; whether there is a God or not doesn't matter. One

Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth.

And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

A man who is fearless is neither coward nor brave for bravery is just a cover up for cowardice.

Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember.

You cannot cling to anything in a changing world.

In love the other is important; in lust you are important

You all know watching, so there is no question of learning it. It is just a question of changing the object of watching.

That which is, is. If you accept it you have joy arising in you, if you reject it you have pain, but the reality remains the same.

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

The ordinary love is a demand, the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving.

Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.

Seeing means that you don't condemn fear as bad from the very beginnings

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

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

What matters is that you should remain exactly what you are because from there starts growth. A

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Truth has nothing to do with your belief! Whether you believe or not makes no difference to truth. But

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

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

To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either.

The only thing in your hands is your life - make it as rich as possible.

Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality.

Sex is animal, love is human, compassion is divine. Sex is physical, love is psychological, compassion is spiritual.

Tantra acceptance is total; it doesn't split you.

This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

There is no one lonelier than God!

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don't do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

Nietzsche is at the base of you all. Within you God is dead, only the ego is alive. And remember, they cannot both exist together.

Whenever there is a man of Tao his statements will look absurd. They are, because they don't fit in with your mind.

My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.

the storm is always too much, because the storm comes from the whole, and a tree is just an individual. Then

Whenever a situation arises that creates fear, there are two alternatives - either you fight or you take flight.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

Truth is an experiencing, not an experience. It is a knowing, not knowledge.

You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ...

Cultivation means you will be creating something around yourself which you are not.

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

Misery is okay; laughter is a disturbance.

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

The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough.

Sing your song, and if nobody listens, sing it alone and enjoy it.

If they say you are good, you have to follow their rules to remain good.

Go into your mind, analyze your mind. Somewhere you have tricked yourself.

Osho often reminds us that if existence has invited us to be here, who else's permission do we need to accept ourselves as we are? Once

He is constantly ready to fight. That means he is afraid.

How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

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

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.

Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation

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

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.

God has created you because he loved you. He loved you so much that he could not resist the temptation to create you. When

When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love
that is the meaning of love.

Be - don't try to become

When your consciousness is simply there without content, that contentless purity is what Tantra calls real experience.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Taoists don't have any maps.

Because if you are serious, they think you're valuable; if you go on laughing and you make your life fun, they think you're a fool.

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

Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.

Before anything happens, awareness is already there, a priori.