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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

D on’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

I f you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

I t is not a question of learning much. On the contrary, it’s a question of unlearning much.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

T ruth is not something outside to be discovered; it is something inside to be realized.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

D esire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

L ove is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

Osho quote, Hinduism

M ind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

T ake life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

Osho quote, Hinduism

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.

Osho quote, Hinduism

B e like a solitary peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

Osho quote, Hinduism