B e. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. quote 5656 | Osho
D on’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. quote 5649 | Osho
W hen you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. quote 5640 | Osho
I f you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. quote 5632 | Osho
I f 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. quote 5625 | Osho
I t is not a question of learning much. On the contrary, it’s a question of unlearning much. quote 5620 | Osho
I t is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. quote 5608 | Osho
T ruth is not something outside to be discovered; it is something inside to be realized. quote 5597 | Osho
I f you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy; your work is your dance. quote 5588 | Osho
Y ou can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect. quote 5587 | Osho
A ccept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. quote 5580 | Osho
D on´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. quote 5576 | Osho
W hen you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a question of creating a different you. quote 5565 | Osho
R eal love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share. quote 5555 | Osho
H ell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature; it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are. quote 5547 | Osho
D esire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. quote 5540 | Osho
M an is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others. quote 5531 | Osho
L ove is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. quote 5525 | Osho
M ind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. quote 5520 | Osho
N ever ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself. quote 5517 | Osho
T ake life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health. quote 5510 | Osho
W herever 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. quote 5506 | Osho
B e like a solitary peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! quote 5505 | Osho