Osho Quotes by Topic

Osho Quotes on Perfection – I don’t teach perfection, I teach wholeness, not perfection

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Osho Quotes on Perfection In life, only mad people ask for perfection. The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad. Change your basic philosophy of that of an achiever. Relax into your being. Don’t have any ideals, don’t try to make something out of yourself, don’t try to improve [...]

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Osho Insights on Tension – Tension is not outside you, it is in your wrong style of life

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Osho quotes and insights on Tension The mental stress and tension the West is suffering from today is the direct result of too much thinking. The anxiety and anguish of the West comes from thinking stretched to its ultimate; it is suffering under the crushing weight of the mind. It seems tension has nothing to [...]

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Osho Quotes on Anxiety – Desiring only creates anxiety, anguish

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Osho Quotes on Anxiety Remember one thing always — that there is no cause to be anxious in life, and all causes are just excuses. If you decide not to be anxious, then nothing will make you anxious; there is nothing worth it. Life is such a fleeting phenomenon that is going to disappear one [...]

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Osho Quotes on Patience – Patience is the greatest religious quality

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Osho Quotes on Patience The disciple who can wait will find all his questions answered at the right moment. But waiting is a great quality: it is deep patience, it is great trust. The mind cannot wait, it is always in a hurry. It knows nothing about patience; hence it goes on piling questions upon [...]

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Osho Quotes on Disciple – The disciple needs receptivity

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Osho Quotes on Disciple Much is needed on the part of the disciple, because unless the disciple is ready — through deep meditation and purification, through deep catharsis and cleansing — even if the Master is there, you will not allow him to put your pot right-side up.  You will resist, you will not surrender, [...]

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osho quotes – the true birth is through the master

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osho quotes - the true birth, is through the master A master is a mother, he is not a father. With a father you are related only intellectually, with a mother your relation is total. You have been part of your mother, you belong to her totally. The same is the case with a master in [...]

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Osho Quotes on Recognizing The Real Awakened Person – Enlightened Master

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Osho Quotes on Recognizing The Real Awakened Person It is absolutely essential to avoid the teachers, they are fake masters. It is very difficult, because they speak the same language. So you have not to listen to the words, you have to listen to the heart; you have not to listen to their doctrines, their [...]

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Osho Quotes – You are here to eat me, to drink me, absorb me, digest me

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Osho Quotes – You are here to eat me, to drink me The truly wise gives you his being, gives himself. The truly wise simply makes himself available to you, and if you are courageous you can drink and eat out of his being. That’s what Jesus means when he says to his disciples: “Eat [...]

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Osho Quotes – A buddha is always misunderstood

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Osho Quotes – A buddha is always misunderstood It seems that the moment a Buddha speaks he is bound to be misunderstood. If you don’t understand him, that’s okay, but people don’t stop there: they misunderstand him — because people cannot tolerate the idea that they don’t understand. It is better to misunderstand than not [...]

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Osho Quotes on Intellectuality – Intellectuality is not intelligence

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Osho Quotes on Intellectuality Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent [...]

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Osho Quotes on Celibacy – Brahmacharya

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Osho Quotes on Celibacy – Brahmacharya Real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither. Remember, to translate BRAHMACHARYA [...]

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Osho Quotes on Nature – Trees Birds Flowers Stars Rivers

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Osho Quotes on Nature Nature is a spendthrift. Where one flower is needed it produces millions. One tree will produce…. Look at the Gulmohr  –  millions of seeds are ready. They will all fall down and a few, one, two, four, five, ten, twenty, a hundred, may become trees. Why so many seeds? God is [...]

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Osho Quotes on Restfulness

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Osho Quotes on Restfulness Be relaxed. And when you are utterly relaxed, in that restfulness become a witness and the spring is always there, ready to surround you from all directions. Rest is the way to belong to god And if one knows the art of restfulness One can act and yet be in rest. [...]

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Osho Quotes on Receptivity

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Osho Quotes on Receptivity Receptivity is a state of no-mind. When you are utterly empty of all thought, when consciousness has no content, when the mirror reflects nothing, it is receptivity. Receptivity is the door to the divine. Drop the mind and be. A deep receptivity is needed. There is no need to buy my staff, [...]

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Osho Quotes on Gratitude

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Osho Quotes on Gratitude Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that [...]

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Osho Quotes on Boredom

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Osho Quotes on Boredom Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That’s what meditation is all about: being a child again — a rebirth, [...]

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