Quotes by Osho

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When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?... Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

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Turning inwards is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all. Turning inwards simply means that you have been running after this desire and that, and you have been running and running and you have been coming again and again to frustration. That each desire brings misery, that there is no fulfillment through desire. That you never reach anywhere, that contentment is impossible. Seeing this truth, that running after desires takes you nowhere, you stop. Not that you make any effort to stop. If you make any effort to stop it is again running, in a subtle way. You are still desiring--maybe now it is desirelessness that you desire. If you are making an effort to go in, you are still going out. Any effort can only take you out, outwards. All journeys are outward journeys, there is no inward journey. How can you journey inwards? You are already there, there is no point in going. When going stops, journeying disappears; when desiring is no more clouding your mind, you are in. This is called turning in. But it is not a turning at all, it is simply not going out.

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People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism, a charisma that can take out alive, young people from the traditional imprisonment...
The enlightened man cannot be enslaved - that is the difficulty - and he cannot be imprisoned... Every genius who has known something of the inner is bound to be a little difficult to be absorbed; he is going to be an upsetting force. The masses don't want to be disturbed, even though they may be in misery; they are in misery, but they are accustomed to the misery. And anybody who is not miserable looks like a stranger.
The enlightened man is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation.

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You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

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If you love you'll know that everything begins and everything ends and there's a moment for a start and a moment for an end and this doesn't create a wound. You won't be wounded, you know that season is over. You don't despair, you manage to understand and you thank the other: "You gave me your gifts, you gave me new visions of life, you opened new windows that I would have never found by myself. Now the moment has come for us to separate, our roads divide". Without anger, with no resentment, without complaints and with infinite gratitude, with great love, with the heart full of gratitude. If you know how to love, you'll know how to separate.

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Between two words is a pause, even if little, imperceptible. Otherwise words wouldn't be two, but would become one. Two words or two notes couldn't be two if there wasn't a break between them. There's always a silence, but you must really be conscious, and careful, to substitute it.

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We are all taught to be eduacated, not to be innocent or to percept the beauty of existence; we are taught the names of flowers; of trees and not how to enter in contact with them, in syntony with existence. Existence is a mistery and it isn't accessible to those who want to constantly analize, pick, but only to those who are willing to fall in love with it, to dance with it.

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Parents should be conscious of how they condition their children. To a child should be given every freedom of trying the good and the bad, so they might decide by themselves. Let them find their way: you must only be careful that they don't fall in a ditch! Never say anything to your children that isn't an existential experience of yours. Accept your ignorance, this will bring you more respect, more faith in what you are. A parent's ego would want to know everything! Be respectful to your children; parents expect the children's respect, but they forget it should be mutual: respect your children and they'll respect you! Trust your children and they'll trust you, so there can be communication.

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Go back to being a child and you won't run away from yourself anymore.
You'll run away into yourself-this is the life of who meditates.
The man of the world runs away from himself whilst the researcher runs into himself to find the fountain of life, of consciousness.
And when he discovers the fountain of life, not only has he discovered the fount of his life, he's also discovered the fountain of life in the universe, of the entire cosmos.
An immense celebration is born in him.
Life simply becomes a song, a dance, moment after moment.

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In love don't be a beggar,
be an emperor.
Give and simply stay
to see what happens...