Osho

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

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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.

Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

The Book of Secrets
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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