“If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.”
Lao Tzu says, “Your consciousness becomes concentrated when it discovers the navel centre. Then it begins to revolve around it.”
“The path of meditation brings everyone to the awareness of a dark space within; and simultaneously, the absolute certainty that ‘I’m not it’. All that is needed of you is just to watch and not to do anything.”
While answering a disciple’s question, Osho addresses two issues; not being able to sleep after meditation, and hate. “It happens to every meditator…that sleep in the night becomes difficult.” “Hate sucks your energy, leaves you empty, spent. Love fills you with 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.'”
“It’s perhaps the boldest statement ever made by any human being in any age in any part of the world, and I don’t think it can be improved upon in the future, ever.”
Humaira Salim in HerZindagi, a women-focused online magazine based in Noida, UP, on September 26, 2025; Book of Woman, The Book of Secrets, Krishna, Learning to Silence the Mind, Book of Man
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Persons come and persons go, persons change – the god of love remains the same!”
“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.”
“I am teaching you the way of transcendence. All dualities have to be dropped: the duality of mind and heart, the duality of matter and mind…”
“You will interpret any message, any commandment, any order to you, in the way which appeals to you most.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “This moment is very critical in the history of man, in the history of human consciousness, a great jump. Either man dies or man becomes new – that is the only choice…”
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.”
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Q: How is it possible that by simply becoming aware at a particular point in the breathing process one can attain enlightenment?
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “Become discontinuous with the mind. That is mutation, that is revolution…”
Osho’s instructions given on the first day to the participants of his last meditation camp in Mt. Abu 1974
“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.”
Vikrant, a therapist from Chile, tells us about his life and the motivation behind writing books on Osho and his people
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.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series, The Open Door; “There is no need for you to be in control. Open all the doors, all the windows. Let the sun and the rains and the wind come (in)!”
“…but I have faith in certain existential situations through which I can throw you into the unknown,” writes Osho in letter 165
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.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the darshan diary, Zorba the Buddha. “Life is a divine continuum. It has no beginning, and no end. It is forever and forever.”
“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.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the darshan series, Nothing to Lose but Your Head
Osho speaks on ‘Boxing’; “[The psychiatrist’s] whole expertise is how to put you back and make you normally mad.”
Osho suggests to a sannyasin in darshan: “Whenever you commit a mistake again, go into the process of it, see why, how, it happens.”
“…but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.” A short excerpt where Osho speaks on personality and individuality