Quotes from Osho

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

Include and grow. Include and expand.

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.

God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.

I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

I live my life based on two principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

Life is an empty canvas- We've to paint it every Moment of our life

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny- he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work to be completed. You are not here accidentally- you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on.

Keep on believing as long as you live and your effectiveness will increased. Never compare yourself or your achievements with others make your comparisons with yourself. Think, believe and visualize success.

One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others, your very dependence will not allow you to understand who you are.

Love is a by-product of freedom; it is the overflowing joy of freedom, it is the fragrance of freedom. First the freedom has to be there, then love follows.

Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.