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Quotes and Aphorisms 06.08.2017

Dear readers, today we have a very deep and sincere topic on our blog - about the meaning of life. At some point, we all become interested in such questions, and then we turn to sages like Osho for answers. Surely everyone is familiar with this name and many have come across Osho's quotes in the net, and someone may have read books compiled from his lectures. However, not everyone knows that Osho is far from being such an unambiguous and blissful person as he is sometimes presented. So let's find out more about him.

At birth in 1931, he was named Chandra Mohan Jein, then changed his name to Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, which means "The blessed one who is god." He left this world 27 years ago as Osho, translated from Hindi - "Ocean, dissolved in the ocean."

The life of this Hindu mystic was very eventful and contradictory. He criticized socialism, Christianity and personally Mahatma Gandhi. He promoted free love relationship(he was even called the "sex guru" and the "guru of scandals"). He founded "special" settlements, the inhabitants of which were considered dangerous sectarians. He was banned from entering 21 countries! And only after his death, many realized that Osho's activity is not only shocking, but the “oceanic” person himself is not an overgrown hooligan, but a passionate, interested in many things, truly deep personality. This is also indicated by his quotes about life.

In essence, Osho's teachings are a combination of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Sikhism, Greek philosophy and much more, even Christianity, which he did not really like, as well as personal experience. Osho said many wise important things, and in the books compiled on the basis of conversations with him (and there are more than a thousand such books), everyone will find something for themselves.

Osho's worldview

Osho's worldview is reflected in his statements:

“I don't have a system. Systems can only be dead. I am an unsystematic, anarchic stream, I am not even a person, but just a certain process. I don't know what I told you yesterday."

"Truth is beyond specific forms, attitudes, verbal formulations, practices, logic, and its comprehension is carried out by a chaotic, not a systematic method."
“My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a kind of alchemy, the science of transformation."

Many of Osho's lectures were paradoxical, but on this occasion he said the following: “My friends are surprised: yesterday you said one thing, and today another. What are we to listen to? I can understand their bewilderment. They just grabbed the words. Conversations are of no value to me, only the spaces between the words I speak are what is valuable. Yesterday I opened the doors to my emptiness with some words, today I open them with other words.

And yet, Osho's speeches, reflecting his views, have value for modern culture. I suggest that we take a look at best quotes Osho…

About happiness

Osho believed that everything that happens to you should be taken lightly. This will avoid suffering. Osho quotes about life help to see what true happiness is.

“What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

"There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret for the past, anxiety for the future, and ingratitude for the present."

“If you are rich, don't think about it; if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously. If you are able to live in the world, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering is the result of taking life seriously; bliss is the result of the game. Take life as a game, enjoy it.

“Do not look for the best, but look for your own. After all, the best will not always be yours, but yours will always be better ... "

Love is what's inside

Love is what's inside. Osho's quotes about love are very sincere. The objects of passion can change, the main thing is freedom and joy, although in principle they can be preserved in alliance with one partner. But to be tormented by love experiences, giving up something significant for yourself, is the wrong approach.

“Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.”

“If you can have freedom and love at the same time, you don't need anything else. You have everything - that for which life is given.

“If you have caught a bird, then do not keep it in a cage, do not make it want to fly away from you, but could not. And make it so that she could fly away, but did not want to.

"If you want to love someone forever, you can't get close to him even for a minute."

“Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving it away. By giving, you receive. There is no other way…”

“Love never hurts anyone. If you feel that love hurts, then something else hurts, but not your love experiences. If you do not understand this, then you will continue to move in the same vicious circle.

“When you are sick, call the doctor. But most importantly, call those who love you, because there is no medicine more important than love.

“If you love and you don’t, let go. If you are loved, but you are not - rate and take a closer look. If love is mutual, fight.

“Love knows how to go into the unknown. Love knows how to discard all guarantees. Love knows how to rush into the unfamiliar and unknown. Love is courage. Trust love."

"You must know that freedom is the highest value, and if love does not give you freedom, then it is not love."

"The mind is a very businesslike, calculating machine; it has nothing to do with love."

“In fact, there is no reason why a woman should wait for the initiative from a man. If a woman is in love, she should take the first step. If the man did not respond, she should not feel humiliated.

Make life around you beautiful!

The idea is simple: you must always go forward and up and discover something new! Both around you and in yourself. Osho's inspirational quotes will support you along the way.

"The only person on earth we can change is ourselves."

“Make as many mistakes as possible, just remember one thing: don’t make the same mistake twice. And you will grow."

“Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting with you is a gift.

“Whenever you are faced with a choice, be careful: do not choose what is convenient, comfortable, respectable, recognized by society, honorable. Choose what resonates with your heart. Choose what you would like to do, regardless of the consequences."

“You only need to be natural, as natural as your breathing. Love your life. Don't live according to any commandments. Don't live according to other people's ideas. Don't live the way people want you to. Listen to your own heart. Become silent, listen to the still, small voice within you and follow it."

“All the values ​​that a person dreams of are hidden inside him.”

“You must constantly be engaged in purification: noticing some nonsense idea in your head, cleanse it of it, throw it away. If your mind is pure and clear, you will be able to find a solution for any problem that arises in your life.

“Any borrowed truth is a lie. Until it is experienced by yourself, it is never the truth.”

“Dedicate your life to beauty. Don't dedicate it to the disgusting. You don't have much time, not much energy to waste. Such a small life, such a small source of energy, is simply stupid to waste on anger, sadness, hatred, jealousy.

“Only one thing in the world is constant, and that is change. Everything else changes, except for changes.”

“We have inherited not only the mind of millions of past years. We have also inherited the madness of millennia.”

"If you become a river, you can't help but become an ocean!"

About communication

All this "socialization" is an illusion. Understand yourself and share the most intimate with loved ones who are ready to understand you.

"Give yourself the luxury of not hanging out with unpleasant people."

“Loneliness is a state when you are sick of yourself, tired of yourself, tired of yourself and you want to go somewhere and forget yourself in someone else.”

“No one can say anything about you. Whatever people say, they are talking about themselves."

“The greatest fear in the world is the fear of the opinions of others. The moment you are not afraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar resounds in your heart - the roar of freedom."

"Society will give you everything if you give it your freedom."

Smile is the main weapon!

High spirits are the basis of our existence. A smile is the main weapon!

“Have you ever noticed that man is the only animal that laughs?”

“People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden on them. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as sacred as prayer."

"Getting too serious is the greatest trouble."

“There comes a time in your life when you move away from the drama and the people who create it. You surround yourself with people you laugh with. You forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right and pray for the rest. Life is so short, live it only happily. Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift, and being happy is your choice.”

"Truth is not a dogma, but a dance."

Difficulties are good for us

Isn't it too easy not to take the problems that arise to heart? Difficult, yes. But we should remember that difficulties are good for us.

"You're a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear."

"Whatever happens, everything is fine."

"Fighting with others is only a ploy to avoid internal struggle."

"Heaven is where the flowers of your true self bloom. Hell is there - where your self is trampled on, and something is being imposed on you."

“Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift, and being happy is your choice.”

"The world comes to you as it comes from you."

Osho suffered from many diseases, for example, he had to be treated in the USA for diabetes and asthma, and at the time of his death, the philosopher was only 58 years old. So there is no doubt that he spoke about life in this way not because it was easy and cloudless for him. But because he really understood that there was no other way than to fall and rise again, and rejoice, and be grateful for everything.

There is no such thing as too much wisdom. Everyone, perhaps, has moments of thoughtfulness, when you begin to doubt, when you want something more. In this case, the philosophy of the Indian mystic Osho comes to the rescue. Despite his commitment to religion and mysticism, his statements are close to life. We present to your attention quotes from Osho. In our selection you will find the philosopher's statements about life, love, happiness. The collection also contains Osho quotes about women and men.

As is typical of Indian traditions, the philosopher changed several names during his life, which reflected the essence of his views and teachings. The last was the name Osho, which means “monarch” or “teacher” in translation. The works of the philosopher are published under his last name.

Osho knows exactly what happiness is. It does not consist in money and not in blessings, the ability of a person to live on earth is already happiness. The philosopher is sure that happiness is with each of us always and everywhere. To understand that we are surrounded by happiness, just look around: the beauty of nature, the ability to communicate and believe in ourselves - that's it, happiness.

Osho pays a lot of attention to love, and here it is difficult to disagree with his views. Love is not measured by anything, it lies in the ability to give and not demand anything in return.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

What matters is not how much money you have, what matters is whether you are happy with it?

Happiness is always with you.

Believe in it and it will never leave you.

Happiness is where you are - where you are, there is happiness. It surrounds you; it is a natural phenomenon.

Are you unhappy? Look around - aren't you surrounded by happiness?!

Happiness happens when you are in tune with your life, in such harmony that whatever you do is joyful.

If you are surrounded by loved ones, you have a favorite job and you are a healthy person - this is happiness.

True Happiness is here and now. It has nothing to do with the Past and the Future.

Happiness is in the present.

Life itself has no meaning, but it is an opportunity to create it.

Everyone is looking for something to live for.

You can enjoy life, you can enjoy life, you can become part of its mystery, but it is absolutely impossible to understand it, being an outside observer.

In life, no one stands aside, everyone takes an active part in it.

Sin is when you do not enjoy life.

You should be happy that you are alive...

The best way to miss life is to have a certain relationship with it.

In life, you need to be able to adapt to everything.

Life is not a mechanical process, and it cannot be safe. This is an unpredictable mystery. Nobody knows what will happen in the next moment.

Life is full of unpredictable moments, that's what makes it interesting.

Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way...

Love you, they will love you too.

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses ...

Sometimes we ourselves do not know what stops us inside.

How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that money can buy is already cheap!

Everything that has true value cannot be bought with money.

Do not look for the best, but look for your own, because the best will not always be yours, but your own is always better!

When you value your own, they will never leave you.

Just being yourself means being beautiful.

Beauty lies in naturalness and lies in the real "I".

Never hope that someone else will change. Change must always start with yourself.

Change yourself and you'll never have to try to change anyone again.

The only time you have is now; the only place is here.

You need to be happy here and now!

You are a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear.

Problems do not arise out of nowhere, as a rule, we create them ourselves.

Until you are able to say "no", your "yes" is meaningless.

Get rid of unnecessary things in life.

The only person on earth we can change is you.

No need to try to change the world, you need to change yourself.

Everything will come by itself - you just need to create favorable conditions. Everything will come - you just need to accept it. Life will definitely smile at you.

In order for luck to come to you, you need to wait for it with open arms, and not close yourself in and complain about life.

Do not look for the best, but look for your own, because the best will not always be yours, but your own is always better!

Good is not what someone else has, good is what you have.

Paradise is where the flowers of your true Self bloom. Hell is there - where your Self is trampled on, and something is being imposed on you.

You will be happy only where your opinion is accepted, and not trying to change it.

Love knows nothing of duty.

In love, no one owes anything, everyone acts according to the dictates of the heart.

Debt is a burden, a formality. Love is joy, generosity; love is informal.

There is real love, formalities for it are just formalities, nothing more.

Love is food for the soul. Love is to the soul what food is to the body. Without food, the body is weak; without love, the soul is weak.

Without love, the soul does not live, it exists.

Without love, a person can be rich, healthy, famous; but he cannot be normal because he knows nothing about inner values.

Only when you fall in love do you understand that the heart can also speak.

Love is a function as natural as breathing. And when you love a person, don't start demanding; otherwise from the very beginning you close the doors. Don't expect anything. If something comes, feel gratitude.

In love, everything should happen naturally.

To love is to share; to be greedy is to accumulate.

Who loves, he tries to give everything that he has.

Greed only wants and never gives, while love only knows how to give and asks nothing in return; She shares without conditions.

In love, they do not consider their own, they simply share them.

Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.

Love is a state of mind, you can love and not be in a relationship.

Giving love is a real, beautiful experience, because then you are the emperor.

It's even better when you give love and receive it in return.

Don't be a beggar. At least as far as love is concerned, be an emperor, because love is your inexhaustible quality, you can give as much as you like.

There are no limits in love.

Love is not a quantity, it is a quality, and a quality of a special category that grows through bestowal and dies if you hold on to it.

Love is measured not by the number of meetings, but by the trembling of souls in love.

Man and woman are doors to God. The desire for love is the desire for God.

When love penetrates into their hearts, it means that God settles in their souls.

Love is not something that can be limited.

Love cannot be measured, weighed or limited, love is incommensurable.

Love is the only one the real thing which is worth experiencing.

Love is what happiness is.

If you want to change a woman, agree with her. If you want to know what's really on a woman's mind, then look at her, but don't listen.

The look and gestures of a woman sometimes say more than words.

Hello, lovers of quotes and aphorisms!

Today I have prepared Osho quotes about happiness for you. The personality of this man is a little contradictory, but many of his statements are worth listening to. I hope that his happiness quotes will help you in your search for your source of happiness.

Happiness does not need to be sought - it must be.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

Being alive is a gift and being happy is your choice.

The one who can be happy alone is real personality. If your happiness depends on others, then you are a slave, you are not free, you are in bondage.

Eat, drink, be merry - wonderful in itself; There is nothing wrong. But this is not enough. You will soon get tired of this. Only a very mediocre mind can go on finding happiness in it.

Life is dialectical. You cannot always be happy, because then happiness will lose all its meaning. You cannot always be in harmony, because then you will not know what harmony is.

So many people wait all week for Friday, the whole month of the holiday, the whole year of summer, and the whole life of happiness. And you need to enjoy every day and enjoy every moment.

The people who know happiness are those who are in tune with the changing life, those who can love even soap bubbles shining in the sun, creating little rainbows. These are people who know more about happiness than others.

What's wrong with someone laughing for no reason?
Why do you need a reason to laugh? A reason is needed to be unhappy; you don't need a reason to be happy.

Happiness is where you are - where you are, there is happiness. It surrounds you; it is a natural phenomenon. It's just like the air, just like the sky.

Happiness is a state of incomparability.

Happiness comes from a sense of self-worth.

True happiness is here and now. It has nothing to do with the past and the future.

Happiness doesn't need a reason. Unhappiness needs reasons, happiness is just natural. Being joyful is completely natural. But it takes time to understand this.

In order to be happy, you need to be filled with happiness. You have to become happiness itself. Only happiness can attract happiness. Do we not see that an unhappy mind can only look for misfortune, even when it is very difficult to find it?

To have a peak, you need a valley.
To feel happiness, unhappiness is necessary.
To know yourself, you need the world.

A person is happy only when he is like a flower, like a lotus - delicate and soft.

Happiness is not conditional: in order to be happy, nothing is needed.
You just need to be alive, and you have it, you already have it.
You have to be conscious - and you already have it.

There is only one happiness in this world - and that is the happiness of being yourself.

When happiness has a reason, it won't last long. Joy without any reason will remain forever.

Chandra Mohan Jain or Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh. Born - December 11, 1931, Madhya Pradesh, India. Died - January 19, 1990 (age 58), Pune, India.

Indian spiritual leader and mystic, attributed by some researchers to neo-Hinduism, the inspirer of the neo-orientalist and religious-cultural movement of Rajneesh. Preacher of a new sannyas, expressed in immersion in the world without attachment to it, life-affirmation, rejection of the ego and meditation and leading to total liberation and enlightenment

Quotes and aphorisms

Love is not something that can be limited. You can hold it in your open hands, but not in your fist. The moment your fingers are clenched into a fist, they are empty. The moment your hands are open, the whole existence is available to you.

Don't expect perfection, and don't ask or demand it. Love ordinary people. There is nothing wrong with ordinary people. Ordinary people- are unusual. Every person is so unique. Respect this uniqueness.

Whatever you are, you have the right to be who you are.

You have the right to live your life according to your own understanding.

Do not fight with anything and do not try to run from anything.
Let everything take its course.

If the relationship between mother and child does not work out, then the whole life of the child does not work out, because this is his first acquaintance with the world, his first experience. Everything that follows will be a continuation of this experience. And if the first step is unsuccessful, then the whole life becomes unsuccessful ...

Don't let your life be just a dead ritual. Let there be moments of the inexplicable. Let there be some things that are mysterious, for which you cannot give any reason. Let there be some actions that make people think that you are a little hello. A person who is one hundred percent normal is not alive. A little madness next to sanity is always a great joy.

A woman in love with you can inspire you to such heights that you never even dreamed of.
And she asks for nothing in return. She just needs love. And this is her natural right.

Causes are within ourselves, outside are only excuses...

Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting with you is a gift.

O loneliness is a state when you are sick of yourself, tired of yourself, tired of yourself, and you want to go somewhere and forget yourself in someone else.

Self-sufficiency is when you get a delightful shiver from your essence. You are happy to be yourself. You don't have to go anywhere.

When you are sick, call a doctor. But most importantly, call those who love you, because there is no medicine more important than love.

Dusha is always young, she never gets old. Why? Because the soul is out of time.

Intimacy with one woman or one man is better than many superficial relationships.
Love is not a seasonal flower. It takes years for her to grow up. And when it grows, it begins to go beyond the limits of physiology, a spiritual principle begins to manifest itself in it. By dating many women or many men, you will stay on the surface. It may entertain you, but only superficially; you will certainly be busy, but this busyness will not help your inner growth.
And a long-term relationship with one person, in which you can better understand each other, is fraught with extraordinary benefits.

The relationship between the two becomes a mirror. A woman starts looking into you and discovers her masculinity; a man looks into a woman and discovers his femininity. And the more you get to know your woman - the other pole, the more whole, one you can become. When your inner man and your inner woman have disappeared, dissolved into each other, when they are no longer separate from each other and become one, you become an individual ... Through many frivolous connections you will remain on the surface ... you will not grow; and in the end, the only thing that matters is growth. The growth of integrity, individuality, the growth of the center within you. And for this growth it is necessary that you know another part of yourself.

Keep looking, getting to know each other, finding new ways to love each other, to be together. For each person is such an endless, inexhaustible, bottomless mystery that you can never say, "I have known her" or "I have known him." The most you can say is, "I tried hard, but the secret remains a secret."
In fact, the more you know, the more mysterious the other person becomes. And then love is the real search.
Try to find the real being hidden in the other person. Don't take people superficially. Every person is such a mystery that if you keep diving deeper and deeper into him, you will see that he is infinite.

Just being yourself means being beautiful.

If you don't know how to say "No", your "Yes" is worthless too.

There are three ways in the world that lead to self-destruction:
Sex is the most enjoyable
excitement is the most exciting,
and politics is the surest.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not?

The greatest fear in the world is fear of the opinions of others. The moment you are not afraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar resounds in your heart - the roar of freedom.

In order to rise, you must fall; in order to gain, you must lose.

From now on, the closeness of people is determined by the comfort of silence.
Two silences cannot remain two... they become one.

When a person is not aggressive, he is invincible.

Love, and let love be as natural to you as breathing. If you love a person, do not demand anything from him; otherwise you will build a wall between you at the very beginning. Don't expect anything. If something comes to you, be grateful. If nothing comes, then it does not need to come, there is no need for it. You have no right to wait.

Do not look for the best, but look for your own, because the best will not always become yours, but your own is always better!

People have completely forgotten that one has to live. Who has time for this? Everyone teaches someone else how to be, and no one ever seems satisfied. If a person wants to live, then he must learn one thing: to accept things as they are, and to accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start preparing for the life that will be in the future.

The value is not in the thing. The value is in your desire for it.

Osho's sayings

Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh)

The world brings neither good nor evil by itself. He is indifferent to humans. Everything that happens around us is just a reflection of our own thoughts, feelings, desires, actions. The world is a big mirror.

Sin is when you don't rejoice.

When you think you are deceiving others, you are only deceiving yourself.

Healthy to oneself is a great religious value. A person who does not love himself will never be able to love anyone else. The first wave must rise in your heart. If it has not grown up for you, it will not grow up for anyone else, because everyone else is much further away from you. It is like a stone thrown into a still lake: the first ripples arise around the stone, and then they continue to spread to the far shores. The first ripple of love must arise directly around you. A person must love his body, love his soul, love himself completely. And this is natural; otherwise you wouldn't survive at all. And that's fine, because it beautifies you. A person who loves himself becomes graceful, elegant. A person who loves himself will inevitably become more silent, more meditative, more prayerful than a person who does not love himself.

Too much intellect orientation, too much head training cuts off all connections with the Heart. Thousands of people do not know what the Heart is! The heart is beating, but Vital energy does not pass through it and, bypassing it, goes directly to the head. You can be very skillful when it comes to logic, you can control logic, but you cannot control...
Love is when you let God find you.

Look at this tip.
You may not be able to understand it right away, but the message is very simple.
The message is: don't interfere.
The message is: don't judge.
The message is: you are nobody to change anyone else.
It's none of your business. You are not meant to do this.
Live yours and let others live theirs.
Let everyone be free to do their own thing.

Don't whine, don't complain.
Do not beg anything from God or the Devil.
They won't give you anything.
Only you can make yourself happy.
Look for Joy within you.
Develop your talents, grant wishes and dance at the celebration of Life.
If you think that a loved one can give you Joy, then you are deeply mistaken.
As soon as you think like that, you become a vampire who tries to suck Joy out of another person.
Stop! This is a dead end. Your Joy is not in other people.
Remember: if you suffer, you suffer because of yourself.
A quarrel between lovers is an attempt to scratch Joy out of another.
You can only get Joy from other people when you love them.
And don't change them, but help them flourish.
Help them to reveal their talents and live life to the fullest.
This applies to your loved ones, and your children, as well as all those around you.
Just love them and enjoy it.

If everyone attacks me, I just laugh... And if you are offended, it means that there is pain inside you! You don't know yourself. The part of you that can be offended is your ignorance. If someone calls you an idiot and you agree - you will be offended, but if someone calls you an idiot, and you know that you are not an idiot - you will just laugh! The person doesn't know you... you understand? If you are offended, then you accept that you are an idiot. He said you're an idiot - you got angry, which means deep down you think you're an idiot. Offended, you show yourself. When you know yourself, no one can harm you. They may harm your body, they may harm your mind, they may harm your emotions, but are you mind body or emotions? When someone hurts you just close your eyes, if it's true then accept it, if not then laugh, don't be serious! Guilt, resentment - you're still young! just shake it, dance!

When you see the sunrise in the early morning, watch in silence, and the sunrise starts inside you too, this is prayer. When a bird soars in the sky and you soar in the sky. And you have forgotten that you are separate - this is prayer. Wherever separation disappears, prayer arises. When you become one with existence, with the Universal Whole, that is prayer.
Prayer is the experience of resurrection, it is rebirth, it is the birth of a new vision... it is a new dimension, it is A New Look on things, it new image life. Not something that you do; but something that you become. It is a state of being - nothing to do with the words you speak in a temple, a mosque, a church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.
This is attunement with the universal, with the whole ... to enter into harmony with the whole is a prayer.

Intelligence is not an achievement. You are born intelligent. Trees are intelligent in their own way, they have enough intelligence to live own life. Birds are intelligent, animals are intelligent. In fact, what religion means by God is nothing more than that the universe is intelligent, that there is intelligence everywhere in it. And if you have eyes to see, you will see it everywhere. there is a mind.

Don't follow others, don't imitate, because imitation, following creates stupidity. You are born with the infinite possibility of the mind. You are born with light within. Listen to that small, small voice within and it will give you direction. No one else can give you direction, no one else can be the model for your life, because you are unique. There has never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be anyone exactly like you again.
By following others you can instill in yourself a beautiful character, but you cannot achieve a beautiful consciousness, and unless you have a beautiful consciousness you can never be free. You will stumble in the dark night of the soul. Only yours Inner Light can be the dawn.

But an ordinary human being does not want to be free. It wants to be dependent. It wants someone to lead it. Why? - because then a person can shift all the responsibility onto the shoulders of someone else. And the more responsibility you put on someone else's shoulders, the less chance you'll ever be free. It is responsibility, the challenge of responsibility, that generates. Don't miss your... Be a light... to yourself...

The awakened ones live in one common world. Each of the sleepers - in his own.

Bliss is always homeless, always a vagabond. Happiness has a home, misery has a home, but bliss has no home. It is like a white cloud that has no roots anywhere.
As soon as you put down roots, the bliss disappears, you are rooted to the ground and you start clinging. Home means safety, security, comfort, convenience. By by and large, if all these things are reduced to one, the house means death. The more alive you are, the more homeless you are.
To be a seeker - that's the main point - is to live in danger, to live in insecurity, to live not knowing what will happen next ... always remaining open, always able to wonder, to keep a sense of the miraculous. As long as you can wonder, you are alive. English words wonder - “feel wonderful and amazing” - and wander - “wander, wander” - come from the same root. A mind chained to a place loses its sense of wonder and wonder because it cannot wander and roam. Travel like migrant like a cloud, and every moment will bring countless surprises. Stay homeless. Being homeless does not mean not living in a house; it only means to be unattached to anything. Even if you live in a palace, don't be attached to it. If it's time to move on, go - and don't look back. Nothing is holding you. Use everything, enjoy everything, but remain the master.

And remember that the most ordinary desire, to be extraordinary, is the most ordinary, universal desire inherent in everyone. Only that one person is extraordinary, who has no desire to be extraordinary, who is completely calm about his ordinariness.

Becomes a goddess when she explores and accepts her femininity.

It almost always happens that in love people become like children - because love accepts. She doesn't demand anything. It doesn't say, "Be so-and-so." Love only says, “Be yourself. You are good as is. You are beautiful the way you are." Love accepts you. Suddenly you begin to discard all your "it's necessary", ideals, personal structures. Like a snake, you shed your old skin and become a child again. Love brings youth.

Even positive emotions if they are false, ugly; and even negative emotions, if they are genuine, are beautiful.

You know everything. You always knew everything. But you will pass half the world. Read hundreds of books. Change dozens of teachers. And only then you will understand that you don’t need to go anywhere, that all the books are about one thing, and the teacher is also one, and He is inside you ...

If you are not yourself, you will never know who you are.

Love is a flower so tender that it cannot be forcibly made eternal.

Don't approach life with clenched fists. Live without preconceived notions about life. Why can't we live without expectations?

Uniqueness is a gift from God, singularity is your own endeavor.

All attempts of the mind to understand life are doomed to failure, because all these understandings are temporary. Today you understand life this way, in a month it will be different, in ten years it will be completely different. Life is a mystery, and a mystery cannot be understood, it can only be lived...

Only when you give your love do you show that you have love, only when you give your life do you show that you have life.

To be in harmony with oneself means to allow everything, no matter what.

We are taught to love even our enemy, but if you are really a person of love, then where can you find an enemy?

Fighting with others is just a ploy to avoid internal struggles.

Don't think you are the exception. The exception is completely different from you.

The thought of the need to change oneself is a condemnation of oneself.

Love that has eyes; knows when to say no and when to say yes.

You find in others only what you first found in yourself. For a joyful heart even dark night shines.

All splendor is in the moment, not in eternity.

Happiness comes from a sense of self-worth.

You are responsible for who you are. Do not shift the responsibility to another, otherwise you will never be free from suffering. No matter how hard and painful it is: it is you and only you who are responsible for everything that happens, has happened, and will happen to you.

Life is an experience, not a theory. She doesn't need an explanation. She is here, in all her splendor, just to live, enjoy and enjoy her.

Happiness does not need to be sought - you need to be happy.

The eyes are the door leading to the mind.

A state when there are no reasons, but you feel the fullness of life, the fullness of consciousness, and there is a soul.

Millions of people have chosen to avoid sensitivity. They became thick-skinned, and only to protect themselves so that no one could hurt them. But the price is very high. No one can hurt them, but no one can make them happy.

Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less and feel more. Do not get attached to thoughts, immerse yourself in sensations... Then your heart will come to life.

Do you want to be happy man- do not rummage in your memory.

There are times when God comes and knocks at your door. This is love - God knocking at your door. Through a woman, through a man, through a child, through love, through a flower, through sunset or dawn... God can knock in a million different ways.

Immature people, falling in love, destroy each other's freedom, create dependence, build a prison. Mature people in love help each other to be free; they help each other destroy any dependencies.
When love lives in dependence, ugliness appears. And when love flows with freedom, beauty appears.

If you love and you don't, let go. If you are loved, but you are not - rate and take a closer look. If love is mutual - fight.

Whenever you are faced with a choice, be careful: do not choose what is convenient, comfortable, respectable, recognized by society, honorable. Choose what resonates with your heart. Choose what you would like to do, regardless of the consequences.

There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret for the past, worry for the future, and ingratitude for the present.

The ego is a perpetual beggar, always in need of something; and love is charitable. The ego understands only the language of "take", the language of "give" is the language of love.
Quote explanation:
08/28/1968 Bombay.

These tears... Even though they are part of the body, they express something that does not belong to the body.
Quote explanation:
From letters to students and friends (from 1962 to 1971) - "A Cup of Tea"

Allow yourself the luxury of not interacting with unpleasant people.

The world comes to you the way it comes from you.

Only the inferior thinks of superiority. Real man, a genuine person is not the first and not the last, he simply is - unique and there is no higher than him, no lower than him.

Despair is only when there is expectation. Nothing can bring me to despair: I do not expect anything from you.

Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting with you is a gift.

Reasons are within ourselves, outside are just excuses.

Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift and being happy is your choice.

We are all unique. Never ask anyone what is right and what is wrong. Life is an experiment in which you should find out what is right and what is wrong. Sometimes, maybe you will do wrong, but this will give the appropriate experience, from which you will immediately benefit.
Every action leads to an immediate result. Just be alert and watch. Mature man- one who has observed himself and found what is right and wrong for him; what is good and what is bad. And thanks to the fact that he found it himself, he has great authority: even if the whole world says something different, nothing will change for him. He has own experience on which he can rely, and that is enough.

Love has three dimensions. One is the dimension of dependency; it happens to most people. The husband depends on the wife, the wife depends on the husband; they exploit each other, subdue each other, reduce each other to commodities. Ninety-nine percent of the time in the world, this is exactly what happens. That is why love, which can open the doors of heaven, only opens the doors of hell.
The second possibility is love between two independent people. This also rarely happens. But even this brings suffering, because the constant conflict continues. No attunement is possible; both are so independent that no one is ready to compromise, to adapt to the other. With poets, artists, thinkers, scientists, with all those who live in a kind of independence, at least in their minds, it is impossible to live; they are too eccentric people. They give freedom to another, but their freedom seems more like indifference than freedom, and looks like they don't care, like it doesn't matter to them. They allow each other to live in their space. Relationships seem only superficial; they are afraid to go deeper into each other because they are more attached to their freedom than to love and do not want to compromise.
And the third possibility is interdependence. It happens very rarely, but when it does, it's heaven on earth. Two people, neither dependent nor independent, but in immense synchronicity, as if breathing together, one soul in two bodies - when this happens, love happens. Just call it love. The first two types don't really love, they just take action - social, psychological, biological measures. The third is something spiritual.

Love is just like the scent of a flower. She doesn't create relationships; it does not require you to be this or that, to behave in a certain way, to act in a certain way. She doesn't demand anything. She just shares.
Similar quote:
Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh). Love. Freedom. Loneliness

Three proofs that Christ was a Jew:
First, he was thirty-three years old and still living with his mother. Secondly, he believed that his mother was a virgin. And thirdly, his mother believed that her son was a god.

Old man Rubinstein constantly annoys the family.
- Look at me! I don't smoke, I don't drink and I'm not interested in women, and tomorrow I'm celebrating my 80th birthday!
- Will you celebrate? - asks the grandson. - I wonder how?

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatever people say, they talk about themselves.

People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden on them. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as sacred as prayer.

The first thing to realize is that whether you like it or not, you are alone. Loneliness is your very nature. You can try to forget him, you can try not to be alone, finding friends, finding lovers, blending in with the crowd... But whatever you do, it will remain on the surface. Deep inside, your loneliness is not affected, it remains untouched.

Rebellion is the flowering of being.

I want you to stop playing all the games - worldly, spiritual, absolutely all the games that the whole of humanity has been playing so far. These games slow you down, they prevent you from blossoming, from becoming aware. I want you to get rid of all this garbage that is holding you back. I want you to be left alone, all alone, because then you will have no one to turn to for help, you will not be able to "stick" to any prophet, and thus you will not have the idea that Gautam Buddha will save you. Only when you are left alone - in endless loneliness - will you have no choice but to find your inner center. There is no way, nowhere to go, no adviser, no teacher, no master. It looks incredibly cruel and harsh, but I'm doing this because you, and the people who didn't, don't and never have loved you. They loved only themselves, they liked to have a big crowd around them - and the larger the crowd, the thicker their ego became.

Make as many mistakes as you can, just remember one thing: don't make the same mistake twice. And you will grow.

Love must be of such a quality that it brings freedom, not new chains; love gives you wings and encourages you to fly as high as possible.

Throw away all the fake faces you've learned to wear. Drop all masks. Be real. Open all your heart; be naked. There should be no secrets between two lovers, otherwise there is no love. Drop all secrecy. This is politics; secrecy is politics. She shouldn't be in love. You don't have to hide anything. Whatever arises in your heart must be transparent to your beloved, and whatever arises in her heart must be transparent to you. You must become two transparent beings for each other.

If you love a person, you will not interfere in his personal life. You will not dare to violate the boundaries of his inner world.

Don't let your doubt die. This is the most precious thing you have, because someday doubt will help you discover the truth.

If you caught a bird, then do not keep it in a cage, do not make it want to fly away from you, but could not. And make it so that she could fly away, but did not want to.

You must know that freedom is the highest value, and if love does not give you freedom, then it is not love.

We have forgotten how to wait. It is almost a forgotten art. And our greatest treasure is to be able to wait for the right moment.

God is reached by one who is ready to go mad.

Only an unhappy person tries to prove that he is happy; only dead man tries to prove that he is alive; only a coward tries to prove that he is brave. Only a man who knows his baseness tries to prove his greatness.

When you suffer, you can go to hell: to a disco, to a restaurant, on a date with your boyfriend or girlfriend. When you're suffering, that's what you have to do. But when you are happy, healthy, feeling good, cheerful and cheerful, when everything around you is safe - do not waste this time on all sorts of nonsense. This is the perfect moment to jump into higher states of peace, ecstasy and bliss.

Never forget this truth: what you get from life is what you give to life.

Everything that has a goal outside of itself is for the mediocre mind, and everything that has a goal in itself is for the really intelligent person.

People have completely forgotten that one has to live. Who has time for this? Everyone teaches someone else how to be, and no one ever seems satisfied. If a person wants to live, then he must learn one thing: to accept things as they are, and to accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start preparing for the life that will be in the future. All the suffering in the world comes from the fact that you have completely forgotten that you need to live, you have become engaged in activities that have nothing to do with life.

Just being yourself means being beautiful.

Have you asked yourself the most important question: do problems really exist or are you creating them yourself? People cling to their misfortunes, just to prevent emptiness in themselves.

To become too serious is the greatest misfortune.

There are people who have turned their illness into a blessing, who have turned their blindness into inner insight, who have turned their death into a new life.

The only time you have is now; the only place is here.

The crowd does not like singles; it recognizes only false people who imitate each other in everything. The crowd despises everyone who keeps to himself, who defends his rights, defends his freedom, does his own thing, regardless of the consequences.

If you are rich, don't think about it; if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously. If you are able to live in the world, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering is the result of taking life seriously; bliss is the result of the game. Take life as a game, enjoy it.

All you need is to be natural, as natural as your breathing. Love your life. Don't live according to any commandments. Don't live according to other people's ideas. Don't live the way people want you to. Listen to your own heart. Become silent, listen to the still, small voice within you and follow it.

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: at its core it is something scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has a lot to do with aesthetics. It cannot be believed that sensitive, conscious, understanding, loving person can eat meat. And if he eats meat, then something is missing - he is still not aware of what he is doing somewhere, he is not aware of the significance of his actions.

And man continues to live on this poisoned meat. No wonder if you remain angry, violent, aggressive; it `s naturally. If you live by killing, you will not respect life; you are hostile to life. And a person who is at enmity with life cannot go to prayer - because prayer means reverence for life.

Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way.

You are a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear.

In solitude there is beauty and splendor, positivity; in the feeling that you are lonely - poverty, negativity and gloom.

Love knows how to go into the unknown. Love knows how to discard all guarantees. Love knows how to rush into the unfamiliar and unknown. Love is courage. Trust love.

Until you are able to say "no", your "yes" is meaningless.

Man created God in his own image and likeness.
Similar quote:
Christopher Hitchens. God is not love. How Religion Poisons Everything

Love is not a relationship, but a state.