“The water takes care of fishes, the Tao takes care of you.”

“Eat like an emperor. That doesn’t depend upon the quality of the food, it depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. Even with just bread, butter, and salt, you can be an emperor.”

“You will interpret any message, any commandment, any order to you, in the way which appeals to you most.”

“Mind wants change and goes on hoping, and goes on hoping against all hope.”

“Seeing is direct, touching is direct, thinking is indirect. That’s why thinking misses.”

“A single word from you will show the mind inside; a single word and your whole being is exposed.”

“You can drop your mind this very moment because the mind cannot hold you. Mind is just a mechanism, a machine; you can get out of it any moment.”

“Suddenly the benediction of emptiness spreads all over you. To be empty is to be divine. To be empty is to have come home.”

“In language it is always a problem to express things.”

“When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen,” states Osho

“Although they were blind, they started finding that this man walks in a different way, talks in a different way, knows things that they don’t know. He says, ‘Now it is sunrise.’ He says, ‘Now the whole sky is full of stars’ – and those blind eyes could not see any star.”

“A puzzle… can be solved. The mystery cannot be solved.”

“A cup of tea declares that the night is over, wake up! Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence. The universe has allowed you one day more – you cannot demand, it is a gift.”

“Nobody has ever heard that anybody became enlightened by seeing a falling leaf.”

“I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human. Here nobody is an emperor and nobody is a beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.”

“Here we teach how to die and get resurrected. Are you ready?”

“You can move into meditation only by being indifferent, just a watcher.”

“Life can be loved; but there is no question and there is no answer.”

“Alexander the Great, or others of his category – are perhaps searching for something else, and are not aware of it. They are searching for greatness – but greatness does not come from acquiring an empire. Greatness comes from becoming your real self, bringing your potentiality to actualization.”

“You should be faithful only to love, not to the lover. Both should be faithful to love, as long as it lasts. If it lasts your whole life, good. If it does not last your whole life that is even better!”

“Not only Buddha, nobody has come down from the seventh heaven, ever. But a few people get obsessed, identified with their reflections.”

“This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. This moment this cake is delicious.”

“You simply watch; you stand by the side unconcerned.”

“A master is not a teacher. A master shares his being with you, not his philosophy.”

“When your senses are unable to see… even then you are a witness. And to perceive the inner witness the senses are not needed.”

“Greed is the root of fear. As long as you desire things you will be afraid to lose them.”

“It is more important to know the lines of someone’s desires than to know the lines of his palms!”

“Let everything pass. Don’t judge, don’t condemn, don’t evaluate. You are only a mirror.”

“God is the ocean you are in, because God is another name for life.”

Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”

“The king said, ‘I certainly have made a mistake. God knows what he is doing.'”

“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”

“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho

“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”

“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”

“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”

“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”

“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”

“From the very moment of conception the search starts… Until death the search continues.”

“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”

“Compassion knows no rules, compassion is beyond rules. It is wild. It follows no formalities.”

“The mind is very impotent in a way. It cannot give you any existential juice, any existential experience, and that is the only thing that matters,” comments Osho on this anecdote

“Somewhere a deep balance is needed. Just between the two, exactly between the two, is transcendence. “

“From the very beginning, everyone is a Buddha… This is the basic message of Zen – and the greatest message that has ever been delivered to man.”

“Don’t try to change the circumstances of your life, try to change the psychology. Try to change your attitudes towards life, don’t try to change the outer situation. Use the outer situation and change the inner state.”

“The moment you have accepted the night totally – and there is no seeking and hankering for the morning – the morning has come.”

“When you come close to a real Master, he gives you the taste of fearlessness.”

“Existence never copies itself. It is always new and always fresh.”

“Only those who are ready to behead themselves can understand.”

“Rare is the possibility of someone’s listening, and rarest is the possibility of someone understanding.”

Osho responds to the question, “Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?” with a story.

“Just say something and it happens. You just say to the mind, ‘Enough – now you be the servant, because you are the servant.’ And, I say, it is just that simple.”

“Everybody has made a palace of the ego. Everybody is too full of it.”

“You have everything that you need. God never sends anybody as a beggar into the world.”

“Whatsoever it is, just be herenow – and a tremendous revelation is waiting for you. The revelation is that nobody can be unhappy in the herenow.”

“Man is always pretending that which he is not; that’s a way of hiding oneself.”

‘If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him immediately!’ – What about you? How do I both love you and kill you?’

“When you come closer to yourself you come closer to me because in the innermost being the centre is one.”

“If you can understand this only then can you understand other things that I have to say.”

“If you ask all the great minds they will say that whatsoever they have attained has come from beyond the mind, not from the mind.”