“Prayer is not saying something to God; on the contrary, it is listening to God. It is being ready to receive his gift.”
“The life of a real seeker is not an ordinary life. The life of a real seeker is the life of freedom.”
Osho on the theme of ‘Animal’; “He can go beyond it; that is another thing. But he belongs to animals. He can transcend, but he comes from the animal.”
“It is an old proverb in Tibet that hundreds go but rarely a single individual reaches – that too, rarely.”
“You are born to be mystics. Unless… you have come to know existence as a mystery… you have not taken the challenge of life, you have been a coward. You have wings, but you have forgotten it.”
Quote chosen for the topic ‘Choose Nature’; “The thinking up to now has been that the individual exists for the society, that the individual has to follow what the society dictates.”
“Not you but your coat is recognized by others; so you go on embroidering your coat, dressing yourself.”
Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’; “Life should be a continuous celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round.”
“It is easy to renounce the world, but how are you going to renounce the mind? Because the mind is the real world!”
Osho speaks on the Tantra vision; “Tantra teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous. It is the greatest of mysteries.”
Buddha answered, “I am just an excuse – they are surrendering. It is not a surrender to me; it is simply a surrender – I am just an excuse.”
Osho says, “The meeting with the enlightened person creates a resonance, a certain vibration that reaches to the very depths of your being.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Agnostic’; “If you have a certain idea of God, you will not be able to see him. Your very idea will become a barrier.”
“If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.”
“To think oneself a rooster is madness; to think oneself a human being is a greater madness, because you don’t belong to any form.”
Osho speaks to a new initiate in darshan, “Tell the mind, ‘Now go on, and I will be just a witness.'”
“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.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Astrology’; “Whenever we are doing anything that is concerned with the future, it is basically a reading of the unconscious of the person. It has nothing much to do with the future.”
“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.”
Osho speaks on ‘Emptiness’; “The whole of existence has come out of emptiness, and whenever it becomes tired it goes back into emptiness.”
“Suddenly the benediction of emptiness spreads all over you. To be empty is to be divine. To be empty is to have come home.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Let-go’; “When you totally accept something, in that very acceptance you have transformed its character.”
“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.”
“What calamity has happened to smell? There seems to be no reason why smell has been so suppressed. No culture anywhere has consciously suppressed it but it has become suppressed.”
“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Perfume’; “Each sense has two possibilities: if the energy falls …downwards, then it is sexual; if the energy rises upwards, then it is spiritual.”
“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.”
Osho speaks on ‘Boxing’; “[The psychiatrist’s] whole expertise is how to put you back and make you normally mad.”
“…but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.” A short excerpt where Osho speaks on personality and individuality
“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.”
Osho answers a question by Nitin Bharti; “You have to learn how to say yes with totality. That is trust, that is surrender, that is faith.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Music’; “If you are sitting by a waterfall just listen to the sound of the waterfall and become one with it.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Relating’; “Two lovers support something invisible and something immensely valuable: some poetry of being, some music heard in the deepest recesses of their existence.”