Osho Quotes by Topic

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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Osho Quotes on Forgiveness

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Osho Quotes on Forgiveness Forgiveness simply means you accept the person as he is, you still love him the way he is. Forgiveness means that you don’t judge him, that you are non-judgmental. But ordinarily we think forgiveness means you know that he has done wrong, still you forgive him. First you judge and then [...]

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Osho Quotes on Maturity

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Osho Quotes on Maturity To grow old is not to grow up, to become old is not to become mature. Maturity has nothing to do with old age, nothing to do with age at all. Maturity has something to do with becoming more and more conscious, becoming more and more silent and aware, becoming more [...]

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Osho Quotes on Old Age

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Osho Quotes on Old Age This is the whole art of life! You enjoy your youth, and when you become old you enjoy your old age. Old age has its own beauties; no young man can have those beauties. Youth is shallow; full of energy but shallow. Old age is not so full of energy, [...]

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Osho Quotes on Consolation

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Osho Quotes on Consolation Always remember: that which nourishes you is real, and that which simply gives you a consolation is very dangerous. Because of this consolation you will not seek the real food. If you start living in dreams and you don’t eat real food, then by and by, you will dissipate, disappear, become [...]

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Osho Quotes on Sitting Silently and Doing Nothing

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Osho Quotes on Sitting Silently Nobody is in a state of stillness; they cannot be. That seems to be a waste of time. Sitting silently, doing nothing is the foundation of meditation. In the West, meditation is not possible for the simple reason that one life span is too short. And death comes too quickly. [...]

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Osho Quotes on Satsang

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Osho Quotes on Satsang Only a living Master is fire enough, flame enough, to bum you totally, utterly, absolutely. SATSANG, to be with the Master, is the ultimate in love and the beginning of death. Unless you are present here — not only physically but psychologically too — unless your whole presence surrounds me, unless [...]

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Osho Quotes on Detachment

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Osho Quotes on Detachment Life is such that detachment is bound to happen, it is not that you have to make tireless effort for it. In fact you are making tireless effort so that detachment does not arise. Just think, look back on your life, take a bird’s-eye view and you will find that the [...]

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