“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.”

In Part 6 Shanti writes, “The next step in the development of human societies… cannot be other than One World and a World Administration. “

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

In Part 5 of Shanti’s series, we travel through the history of humankind, from family groups, to tribes, chiefdoms and states, kept together by organized religions

“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

In the next installment (Part 4) of Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we meet the first homo sapiens

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

In Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we travel through the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene Epochs (Part 3)

“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.”

Part 2 of Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young. Volume 25: from the Cambrian to the Cenozoic

“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 start of a new series by Shanti, titled Humans Are Still Young. “Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star,” says Brian Cox in Wonders of the Universe.

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

Final part of Shanti’s ‘A portrait of human dignity’.

“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?’

Part 4 of Shanti’s ‘A portrait of human dignity’.

“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.”

Which image of our human potential, of our dignity as human beings, do I see emerging from his tales? asks Shanti. (Part 3 of 5)

“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.”

“Reaction is out of the past. If you react, out of old habits, out of mind, then you are not responding. To be responsive is to be totally alive in this moment, here-now.”

Part 2 of 5 of Shanti’s ‘A portrait of human dignity’.

“If you cannot reach, don’t try to console yourself!”

“One day or other you will come to the wide river where… all is taken… and you are left totally alone, with no possessions.”

In ‘A portrait of human dignity’ Shanti reports on his present understanding of what it means to be human (Part 1 of 5).

“A promise is possible only if tomorrow is certain. But who knows anything about tomorrow?”

“All talk is to prepare you for silence, and only in silence can the truth be given.”

“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”

“This moment life is there – live it!”

“We are greedy. We live through greed…”

“Whenever the union is found, God is found.”

“What can you ask for? [God] has already given all that can ever be received by you.”

Osho comments on a Zen story: “This is the way of Zen. It is the most unique phenomenon in the whole world of religions.”

“My definition of ‘being holy’ is nothing but to be whole – capacity to come into the world and yet remain above it, beyond it; capacity to use the mind but yet remain centered in your being.”

“A real painting is not just the sum total of the colors, it is more – and that “more” is the meaning,” says Osho.

“Mastership arises only when you learn slowly, slowly to dissolve into existence,” states Osho.

“Hearing Zen, reading Zen is not going to give you Zen. Zen is a quality that you have to attain to.”

Shanti, excited about the prospect of having an observatory for gravitational waves built right under his mobile home, explains the implications of it.

“In the search for the first principle silence is the door – the only door,” comments Osho on this sutra.

“Two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful.”

“You are Buddhas, pretending not to be, pretending to be somebody else.”

“To be alive is the way, to be conscious is the way.”

“If it is the bus terminus, why should you worry? How can you miss it? There is no way of missing it!”

Angulimala “had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people, not less than that, because the society had not treated him well.”

“One of the most famous Zen stories about the great Zen Master Hakuin…” as told by Osho.

“The ‘noosphere’ consists of human consciousness and mental activity,” writes Shanti.

“Buddha’s miracles are so different that you will be surprised!” states Osho.

“If we see changes in the situation we change immediately, as if we have no integrated soul, no crystallized soul.”

An essay by Shanti on “a fascinating man’s life.”

“Clouds gather and go, they disappear, they are accidental, but the sky remains. You are the sky.”

“The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary.”

Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’

“Love is a law unto itself; it needs no other law,” states Osho.