Osho

1. If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.

Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation

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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that
you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to
it, a little more dance to it

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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.
Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into
the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes,
simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion.
That's its balance

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I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity
created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. 

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not
interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The
moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. 

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you
are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. 

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more
and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is
utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an
unconditioned, sane, really free human being

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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no
condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout
at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you
are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility
of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be
improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it

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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a
relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love

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You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness,
from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and
nobody can make you happy

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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you
become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends
on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always
following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be
respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being
disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…

Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self
at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem
— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is
irrelevant!

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really
showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates
that you have not come home yet.

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I live my life based on 2 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.

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I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state
of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does
not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of
being. I simply love.

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Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to
any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self
knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many
other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution
happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change. You start
feeling new responsibilities--not as some thing to be done, not as a duty to be fulfilled, but as a
joy to do.

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You exist in time, but you belong to 
eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are 
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no 
birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of 
your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of
meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself

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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life

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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go
deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow
happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness
it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

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Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique,
incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute
your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being

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If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make
him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

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Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison.
Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of
bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence
there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they
stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot
manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They
don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or
she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the
great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet
tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons
in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no
effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

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Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some
space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left
places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser

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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love
cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue

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With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate
you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your
very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind;
don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the
memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the
non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because
you will miss your whole life

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman
existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." and so in you the child
your mother lives on and through your family continues to live... so at this time look after
yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never
die________I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if
it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would
like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to
love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message________Courage Is a
Love Affair with the Unknown

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Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it.

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It
is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of
sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without
becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming
addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the
other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other,
because it is not given by the other.

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In love the other is important; in lust you are important

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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.