
Osho Rajneesh quotes, and his life story, continue to inspire people today, despite the controversial period in which his followers went head-to-head with the people of Oregon.
When he was alive, the charismatic Osho Rajneesh, sometimes known as the “sex guru” had a huge following. People from around the world believed in him and his teachings. While he advocated the importance of spirituality, which was popular, he added the need for materialism, which was possibly even more popular. According to the teachings of Rajneesh, the spirit was on par with the flesh. They were equal. It was this unique interpretation that made him stand out among the many Indian gurus of the 1960s and 1970s. His following included celebrities, millionaires, and simple working people.
The Life of Osho Rajneesh
Osho Rajneesh was an Indian mystic and spiritual leader, a dynamic speaker who expressed his views on topics frequently considered taboo in a more conservative society. Rajneesh grew up questioning societal cultural and religious standards; rebellion came naturally to him.
Rajneesh was born on December 11, 1931, in a small Indian village, the oldest of 11 children. He was known as Acharya Rajneesh and, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Subsequently, he took on the name Osho.
Osho was well-educated. He studied philosophy at the University of Sagar. He claimed to have become enlightened by the age of 21. More than like, he was simply bored with the status quo. Subsequently, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. He did grow increasingly unhappy with the standard philosophical interpretations of Hinduism, going so far as to call them hypocrisies.
As a teacher, he developed an interest in hypnotism. He believed that if a person was hypnotized, the hypnotist became his master. The hypnotist had to power to make suggestions which the hypnotized person was obliged to follow. Even as a young man, Osho liked guiding others.
Osho Rajneesh Develops His Own Ideas
As his disappointment with standard philosophy grew, he began to develop his own ideas. According to Osho, “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
Osho traveled throughout India to discuss eastern spirituality. He created controversy by speaking out against marriage, which he claimed oppressed women. He openly spoke out in favor of free and uncontrolled sexual freedom. Some of his followers invested in meditative retreats, where he could lecture without interference. His followers in India grew to 4,000 by 1970. He lectured that each person was responsible for his or her own spiritual path. His plan was to open spiritual communities around the world to help spread that message.
Osho owned a number of businesses, especially those related to yoga and meditation, and he was able to accumulate considerable wealth.
His followers began calling themselves “Rajneeshees.” One of his wealthy disciples, a Greek heiress, purchased a property in Koregaon Park, Pune. Osho moved there in 1974, and it soon became his spiritual headquarters.
Life in Koregaon Park

Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Zutshi visited Koregaon Park and wrote a first-hand account of his experience. He described Osho’s insistence that truth depended on satiating every desire. Nothing was to be left repressed. Rajneeshees did daily meditations, which included the release of emotions through shouting, jumping up and down, and singing. Osho called it Dynamic Meditation. According to Zutshi, life at Koregaon Park was “open and permissive.” Inhibitions were discouraged. Therapists would lead therapy groups that encouraged violence and sexual liberation.
Osho’s fame was spreading outside of India. People from across the world came to see him each day. By 1976, he saw up to 30,000 foreign disciples annually. His committed followers worldwide numbered 25,000. Vikram Zutshi abandoned his career and began work as a gardener at the property. Many famous people became devotees.
Sixteen-year-old Sheela Ambalal Patel, known as Ma Anand Sheela, met Osho and soon became a trusted confidante. She took over the administrative functions at Pune as Osho came to depend on her more and more. One of her first major responsibilities was finding a new location for Osho to teach and meet with his disciples. Sheela opted for going outside of the limitations of India, where Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was not overly fond of the popular guru. The Indian government was investigating Osho for activities related to prostitution, smuggling, drugs, money laundering, and tax evasion. Perhaps Osho was embracing his own “permissive” preaching and satiating his every desire. However, Sheela considered it a good idea to leave the country.
Mayhem in Oregon
Sheela decided on Oregon in the United States as a logical move. By 1981. Osho, Sheela, and a group of disciples moved to Wasco County, Oregon, and created a complex made up entirely of Rajneeshees. They called their city Rajneeshpuram. Osho had always been against inhibitions. Here, the Rajneeshees placed no limits on their behavior and soon turned into the infamous “sex cult” for which they would become famous. It was also difficult to miss them, as they all dressed in shades of orange and red.
Oregon had never seen anything quite like it.
- Osho, who never denied his appreciation for materialism, was said to own close to 100 Rolls Royces. Devotees would wait along the roadside to catch a glimpse of their beloved guru driving past them.
- Former Rayneeshees claimed that Osho was heavily into valium and nitrous oxide.
- Osho had always been open-minded regarding sexuality. The group that was becoming known as the “sex cult” was now indulging in drug-filled orgies. Sheela subsequently discussed Osho’s sexual involvement with many of the women in Rajneeshpuram. She developed a jealous tendency where Osho was concerned.
- While unconfirmed, it was believed that Osho had all of Rajneeshpuram wiretapped. He was afraid that some of the activities of the group would become known. It was his devoted Sheela who monitored the telephone call center.
- To circumvent US immigration laws, Osho arranged for 400 fake marriages. This is considered one of the largest marriage frauds in US history.
- If Osho preached the traditional Hindu peace message, he did not practice it. After the commune fell apart, an entire armory of weapons was found, including Magnum revolvers, assault rifles, and semiautomatic Uzis.
The area around Wasco County was filled with traditional, conservative family-type people. The Rajneeshees definitely stood out with their red and orange clothing and uninhibited sexual lifestyle. The Oregonians became hostile. They did not want this behavior in their community. A struggle emerged between the locals and the Rajneeshees. In 1984, the Rajneeshees decided to fight their battle by winning local elections and silencing their opponents.
This resulted in the strangest and worst bioterror attack the United States had ever experienced. The idea was to get rid of opposition voters. And not by outwitting them. The commune planned on killing those that opposed them. They purchased salmonella in Seattle from a medical supply store and developed cultures in their lab. This salmonella was placed in salad bars in several restaurants and in food stores.
Seven hundred fifty-one people were affected by the salmonella; dozens had to be hospitalized. It was the most bizarre case of food poisoning Oregon had ever experienced. The Rajneeshees didn’t stop there. They bussed in homeless people to their compound with promises of food and shelter if these homeless would vote for the Rajneeshee candidates. Voter registration had to be stopped through emergency measures.
Allegedly, Sheela was plotting an assassination against Oregon’s US Attorney Charles Turner¸who was investigating some of the crimes associates with the cult.
Even without any definitive proof, the Oregoneans blamed the Rajneeshees and defeated them in the election. The Rajneeshees, with Osho as their leader, had lost the battle.
After a year of investigation, the Center for Disease Control tracked the bacteria to the commune and its own laboratory. It is interesting that many of Osho’s followers remained indifferent to these serious crimes and continued to follow Osho’s teachings.
Osho and Sheela
Osho and Sheela may have been close, but their relationship was toxic. As his assistant, Sheela was in charge of managing Rajneeshpuram. The Rajneeshees had to go through her to get to Osho. While he was worshipped as a guru, this left him strangely isolated and ever more dependent on her.
If he suffered from dependence, her feelings for him were obsessive love. She resented anyone who got too close to Osho. When she was found guilty of the attempted salmonella poisoning and the attempted murder of US Attorney Charles Turner, she insisted that Osho had been utterly aware of all the activities and had provided his approval. Sheela fled Rajneeshpuram and was hiding out in Germany, and Osho, in turn, accused Sheela of the crimes. “She is on hard drugs. Perhaps she is angry because I never made love to her.”
Whatever happened between them, obsessive co-dependency rarely ends well.
An Arrest is Made

The authorities were still after Osho. When he left Rajneeshpuram, he and 13 disciples were arrested in Charlottesville on October 28, 1985. The charges included providing false statements to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Sheela was arrested in Germany on charges of attempted murder. She served 29 months in prison.
Osho ended up in the Oregon county jail. During his trial, he pleaded guilty to two immigration fraud charges, and he agreed to a $400,000 fine. In return, he was forced to leave the country.
He returned to India, where he remained long enough to denounce America. His followers were delighted to have him back home; however, he didn’t stay long. He traveled through 13 countries. Several local authorities attempted to refuse him entry, and he was forced to keep moving. If he was let into a country, such as Ireland or Uruguay, he was invariably requested to leave.
In 1987, Osho returned to Pune. He resumed lecturing every day and continued his Dynamic Meditation and was only slowed down by occasional ill health. His last lecture was given in 1989. After that, he sat among his followers in silence.
Mystery in Death
Osho died on January 1990 at the age of 58. After 30 years, there is still a cloud surrounding his death. After his death, those closest to him immediately took over the helm of his huge empire. There were, and still is, considerable questions regarding Osho’s will. Or if there even was a legitimate will.
An affidavit from Osho’s physician, Dr. Gokul Gokani, confirms the doctor’s belief in the existence of foul play. He stated that he was requested to attend Osho’s at his home on an emergency basis. Yet when he asked who was ill, no one provided an answer.
When he arrived at Osho’s house, he was told by Osho’s disciple, Amrito, that “Osho is leaving the body.” Yet, Dr. Gokani was not allowed to see Osho. Nor was he told why Amrito made no efforts to save a dying man. Why was Osho not transferred to a hospital? And why didn’t Dr. Gokani insist on seeing his patient? The doctor did not see Osho until five o’clock, by which time Osho was indeed dead. Amrito requested that Dr. Gokani sign the necessary death certificate.
According to Dr. Gokani, Osho’s cause of death remains unknown.
Osho was cremated one hour following his death. Amrito requested that everyone refrain from discussing Osho’s death. No explanation was given for the hasty cremation. Even his mother was not informed of his death.
Twenty-three years following Osho’s death, a mysterious will surfaced, which various parties have been disputing in court. The actual cause of Osho’s death is still unknown.
Osho’s Legacy
Several decades following Osho Rajneesh’s death, a movement is attempting to redefine his contribution to philosophy. His teachings are being reframed to appear more mainstream and less controversial. The Osho International Foundation is focusing on stress management for large corporate clients.
The OSHO International Meditation Resort functions as a “spiritual oasis” and a “sacred space.” Osho’s beliefs are being taught at the Department of Philosophy of the Mankunwarbai College for Women in Jabalpur. The class attempts to unify Osho’s belief in the spiritual and the material world, something he had tried, but at which he had failed.
However, even in death, his name and teachings live on.
Osho Rajneesh Quotes
Osho Short Quotes
Awareness functions almost like magic.
—OSHO
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
—OSHO
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
—OSHO
Bring your awareness on the spine.
—OSHO
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
—OSHO
Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
—OSHO
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
—OSHO
Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
—OSHO
First, if conflict is your thing then let it be so.
—OSHO
Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
—OSHO
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
—OSHO
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
—OSHO
Rejoice life and existence will take care of you.
—OSHO
Trust is the bridge between you and existence….
—OSHO
There is no end to the fullness of emptiness.
—OSHO
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
—OSHO
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
—OSHO
The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
—OSHO
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
—OSHO
Osho Uplifting Quotes
Awe, wonder, surprise: these are the ingredients of the charisma, of the mystery of life.
—OSHO
Accept whatsoever is there, and once you accept unconditionally, then everything is beautiful.
—OSHO
Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… then the reality will be revealed to you.
—OSHO
Desire, the longing for something else takes you away from this moment.
—OSHO
Don’t try to escape from anything; do it wholeheartedly. Then there comes a point, a peak, where no more can be done.
—OSHO
Existence follows certain laws—and there are no exceptions. If one wants to die consciously, the only way is to be enlightened.
—OSHO
Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again—That is stupidity.
—OSHO
If a man becomes very proficient in controlling his body and succeeds in suppressing his physical body completely, there is a possibility that no vibrations will arise in the etheric body and it may become absolutely inert.
—OSHO
It is only a question of how to use everything, whatever it is, Use it rightly. The disaster is great, the danger is great, but great is the opportunity too
—OSHO
Turning inwards is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all.
—OSHO
There are only two ways to live your life, only two ways to be: one is the right way, the other is the wrong way.
—OSHO
We can bring up children in a more human way, unconditioned, intelligent, looking at the whole earth as one.
—OSHO
You are the goal. You are the way. You are the light. You are the whole. That is the meaning when we say ‘You are holy’.
—OSHO
You are carrying everything that you need just go into the seeker and don’t go seeking outside. Seek the seeker, let the seeker be the sought.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Love
A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
—OSHO
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
—OSHO
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
—OSHO
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.
—OSHO
If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. 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. When you love, you simply love.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
Love is the goal, life is the journey.
—OSHO
Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
—OSHO
Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.
—OSHO
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give – to give for the sheer joy of giving – then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Life
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life—the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
—OSHO
Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
—OSHO
I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.
—OSHO
I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to super consciousness, everything is divine for me.
—OSHO
Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.
—OSHO
Life begins where fear ends.
—OSHO
Life repeats itself mindlessly—unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
—OSHO
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
—OSHO
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
—OSHO
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
—OSHO
Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
—OSHO
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
—OSHO
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
—OSHO
Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Woman
A woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.
—OSHO
If you can’t respect women, you can’t respect anybody else—because it is from women you come.
—OSHO
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
—OSHO
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Believe in Yourself
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
—OSHO
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
—OSHO
If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.
—OSHO
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible—only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
—OSHO
I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.
—OSHO
No thought, no mind, no choice—just being silent, rooted in yourself.
—OSHO
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
—OSHO
To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.
—OSHO
Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
—OSHO
There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself.
—OSHO
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
—OSHO
You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Meditation and Awareness
A man of awareness needs neither duties nor responsibilities nor choices. Yet only he is capable of doing the right thing in the right moment.
—OSHO
Bring awareness to your senses so that they become more sensitive. They are doors, windows, bridges with existence.
—OSHO
Finding inner peace is the most difficult thing in your life. But it is the easiest. The answer is simple watch the flow of your mind without judgment. Let all thoughts pass.
—OSHO
I am teaching my people to be meditators, to be people who can enjoy aloneness, to be people who can respect themselves without belonging to any crowd.
—OSHO
If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction.
—OSHO
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
—OSHO
It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people’s aloneness.
—OSHO
Meditation is a death—death of all that you are now.
—OSHO
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
—OSHO
Once the mind is finished, you are left in total aloneness. And this aloneness is such a great joy.
—OSHO
With the flame of awareness even all that you have been thinking is wrong will become right.
—OSHO
Osho Motivational Quotes
Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
—OSHO
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
—OSHO
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
—OSHO
If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.
—OSHO
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
—OSHO
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
—OSHO
The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
—OSHO
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
—OSHO
When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
—OSHO
Osho Inspirational Quotes
Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
—OSHO
Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
—OSHO
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
—OSHO
Don’t be so short of trust, and don’t be in a hurry. If I say something, wait, search, and you will find the way.
—OSHO
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
—OSHO
Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.
—OSHO
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
—OSHO
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.
—OSHO
Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
—OSHO
That is the simple secret of happiness. 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. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
—OSHO
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.
—OSHO
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Wisdom
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
—OSHO
Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.
—OSHO
Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it—make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.
—OSHO
It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.
—OSHO
Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. 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. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.
—OSHO
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord… As if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.
—OSHO
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions—into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.
—OSHO
Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
—OSHO
So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.
—OSHO
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
Osho Quotes on Happiness
More Osho Quotes
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny—he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally—you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
If you want to learn anything, learn trust—nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help—learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help—learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
—OSHO
It is a strange thing that every child is born with a closed hand and everybody dies with an open hand.
—OSHO
It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of UNLEARNING much.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO
No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.
—OSHO
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
—OSHO
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
—OSHO
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
—OSHO
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
—OSHO
This pain is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing…. This pain is just to make you more alert–because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them.
—OSHO
There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.
—OSHO
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
—OSHO
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.
—OSHO