Osho

India
11 Dec 1931 // 19 Jan 1990
Mystic / Guru / Spiritual Teacher

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Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.

The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential
Love is the true God - not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.

Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
Just the other day I came across a statement: a perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!

Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
What we are doing in life decides how we are creating ourselves. What our behavior is in life decides the directions our soul will travel, the paths it will move on, the new worlds it will explore.

Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness
We are formed by what we do. It is our actions that ultimately make us. What we do slowly, slowly becomes the creator of our lives and our souls.

Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.

India, My Love
Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega
Love is the opposite of lust: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

Come, Come, Yet Again Come
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