Osho Short Quotes and Sayings

1. Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
2. Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
3. Love is always an emperor.
4. Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.
5. Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.
6. Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
7. Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.
8. I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
9. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
10. Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.
11. Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.
12. Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.

Short Quotes of Osho

1. Love is not a higher quality than truth.
2. A religious person is a desireless person.
3. Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.
4. When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
5. Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
6. Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
7. Only a love free from attachment brings health and wholeness.
8. Fire is a great symbol of purification, of detachment, of rising vertically towards the ultimate space which is our home.
9. Keep only one goal: constantly be mindful of it, remember it — that you have to become a buddha. Less than that is not going to fulfill you.
10. Whenever you punish somebody you are punishing yourself. Whenever you torture somebody you are torturing yourself — because there is nobody else.
11. Precious are those moments when you feel like a disciple. Nourish them. Those moments have to be nourished more and more.
12. Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
13. Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
14. I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….
15. The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

Osho One Liner Quotes and Sayings

1. Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!
2. Love makes you aware of something which cannot be known by the intellect; it makes you available to the presence of God.
3. Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.
4. To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character — remain characterless.
5. Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.
6. Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.
7. Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
8. Be yourself, look within yourself, and in that very seeing, the ego disappears.
9. Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.
10. A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.
11. The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can’t sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.
12. Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.
13. Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.
14. Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird’s-eye view.
15. Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending.
16. We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Osho Short Quotes

1. My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.
2. To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.
3. My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.
4. Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
5. Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
6. Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
7. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
8. Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.
9. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.
10. Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.
11. Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.
12. When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
13. To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.
14. To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
15. Let sannyas be the turning point. That’s what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.

Osho Short Quotes  and Sayings

1. To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
2. Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
3. Be herenow… just this moment.
4. My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
5. Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.
6. Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
7. Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?
8. My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
9. I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.
10. The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
11. The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.
12. The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.
13. The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence.
14. If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
15. In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
16. Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.

Osho Quotes

1. I want every one of my sannyasins to be utterly unique.
2. Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
3. Every man has the potential to become enlightened. If he does not become, he is responsible — nobody else is responsible for it.
4. Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
5. Hate can very easily turn into love, just as love can turn into hate. They are two sides of the same coin.
6. My teaching is very simple: meditation is the key, becoming totally aware is the result. Experiencing oneness with the whole is the reward.
7. My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. Your whole life has to be colored by it.
8. Sufis say that a master accepts you not because of your inquiry, he accepts you because of your preparation.
9. My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.
10. My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.
11. The real function of the Master is to give you encouragement. Just by his presence, his blissful life, peaceful life, creates a certain milieu in which you can move easily toward dropping your plannings, projects, and allowing existence to happen.
12. I have experienced so much that to die without conveying it in some way or other will be a shame.

Osho Short Quotes and Sayings

1. The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation.
2. Anybody who becomes a Buddha becomes one through meditation. Take refuge in meditation. Take refuge in nothingness.
3. When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.
4. Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.
5. Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
6. You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.
7. You have to relax, you have to stop judging.
8. Go deep in your unhappiness; it is going to reveal many things to you.
9. To me, every day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nourishing, it is energy-giving, it is vitalizing.
10. Love has to be discovered — it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the river disappears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean — it becomes the ocean.
11. Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.
12. When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God reflects. Then all chaos disappears, all questions disappear.

Short Quotations of Osho

1. Make yourself more and more alert.
2. The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
3. Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.
4. If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.
5. Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.
6. Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.
7. No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.
8. Happiness comes when you are meditative.
9. My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.
10. Western man is missing the flowering of life because he knows nothing about meditation, and Eastern man is missing because he knows nothing of love.
11. Just as water flows downwards towards the ocean, beauty, truth, love — all that is valuable in existence — flows towards a person who is nobody.

Osho Short Quotes and Sayings

1. Meditation brings you face to face with the reality.
2. Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.
3. Meditation is a way of awakening.
4. Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.
5. Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.
6. The only alternative is to be more conscious, more alert, more alive, more loving — and create a new world with a new man, bring a new dawn to humanity.
7. Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.
8. Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.
9. My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.
10. My speaking is really one of my devices for meditation.
11. I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.
12. Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.
13. You are too much identified with the false, the personality.
14. Meditation is the only possibility for creating a space where blessings shower.
15. Rare is the person who transforms his life into a growth, who transforms his life into a long journey of self-actualization, who becomes what he was meant to be. In the East we have called that man the buddha.

Osho Short Quotes

1. Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
2. Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
3. Celebration is the very nature of existence.
4. Mind always creates duality.
5. Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence.
6. Your absence is the presence of godliness.
7. The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
8. This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
9. Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.
10. Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
11. The falisity of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.