We are always in search of wisdom and inspiration, that’s why we bring 75 Osho quotes about life, happiness and love.
Who is Osho?
His given name is Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. He was an Indian philosopher who traveled to many parts of the world spreading his spiritual movement. He even established a community in Oregon, USA, but was deported for violating immigration laws.
Today, his disciples keep his legacy alive through the OSHO International Meditation Resort.
Osho’s 10 commandments.
Although he did not agree with pigeonholing beliefs, in an interview he gave these 10 commandments:
- Never obey anyone’s command, unless it also comes from within.
- There is no other god than life itself.
- The truth is within you, do not look for it elsewhere.
- Love is prayer.
- Becoming nothing is the door to the truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal, and the achievement.
- Life is here and now.
- Live awake.
- Don’t swim, float.
- Die in each moment so that you can be new in each moment.
- Do not search. What is is. Stop and look.
75 Osho Phrases about life, happiness and love.
Osho Quotes #1
“Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous teacher.”
“Love is the goal, life is the journey.”
“Darkness is an absence of light. The ego is an absence of consciousness.
“The biggest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you don’t fear the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart: the roar of freedom.”
“It takes a certain amount of darkness to see the stars.”
“Never belong to a crowd. You don’t belong to a nation. Never belong to a religion, nor belong to a race. It belongs to all existence. Why limit yourself to the small things when the whole is available?
“It is beautiful to be alone and it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. They are complementary, not contradictory.
“Love the person, but give them total freedom. Love the person, but make it clear from the start that you’re not selling your freedom.”
“When you love, love as if the person were a god, no less than that.”
Osho Quotes #10
“Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less, feel more.
“Be a lotus flower. Stay in the water and don’t let the water touch you.”
“If you love a person, you accept the whole person. With all the flaws. Because those defects are part of the person. Never try to change the person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half of the person and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you just love.”
“Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”
“People say love is blind because they don’t know what love is. I tell you that only love has eyes. Apart from love, everything is blind.
“Life is not a problem. Seeing it as a problem is taking a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.
“Find the ecstasy within you. It’s not out there.”
“One only needs a little attention to see and discover: life really is one big cosmic laugh.”
Osho Quotes #20
“Life begins where fear ends.”
“Love in its purest form is sharing joy. He does not ask for anything in return, he does not expect anything. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. The ego is psychological; love is spiritual.”
“Yes, no. try to be“.
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that everyone should go and become a great painter and a great poet. I just want to say that your life is a painting, that your life is a poem.
“What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within yourself. As you are, you are a mess.”
“The feminine is more powerful than the masculine. The soft is more powerful than the hard. Water is mightier than rock.”
“Don’t try to understand life. Live the!
“Love and respect yourself. Then you will be surprised how much growth starts to happen on its own…as if the rocks have been removed and the river starts to flow.”
“Only laughter makes a man rich, but laughter has to be happy.”
Osho Quotes #30
“To avoid pain, avoid pleasure. To avoid death, avoid life.”
“Be realistic: plan a miracle.”
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still a natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”
“What you feel, you become. It’s your responsibility.”
“To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself. There is no one like you, no one with whom you can compare yourself. Then all of a sudden you’ll be home.”
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
“Being creative means being in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough to enhance its beauty. Feeling that you want to give it a little more music, a little more poetry, a little more dance.
“Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of happiness.”
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it. Because if you pick it up, it dies and stops being 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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Osho Quotes #40
“A woman should be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.”
“Don’t move as fear makes you move. Move as joy makes you move.”
“They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think all you want!
“If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That’s the right place to start and then expand.”
“Sadness gives depth and happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots and happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree that goes to heaven, and sadness is like roots that go down to the womb of the earth. Both are necessary, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger its roots will be. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s his balance.”
“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is requested, no condition; where one simply enjoys giving.”
“No one has the power to take two steps together; You can only take one step at a time.”
“Just look at life with more playful eyes. Do not be Serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Do not pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just be a human being.”
Osho Quotes #50
“You need to create something or discover something. But you must do something with your freedom.”
“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”.
“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you don’t know, you are daring. Ignorance is always bold. Knowledge falters. And the more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”
Listen to your being. It is continually giving you clues. It is a still, small voice. He doesn’t yell at you. And if you shut up a bit you will start to feel your way.
I know the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being yourself, whatever the cost. Risk everything to be yourself; that’s what maturity is all about.”
“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny: you have something to accomplish, you have a message to deliver, some job to complete. You are not here accidentally, you are here in a meaningful way. There is a purpose behind you. The all intends to do something through you.”
“Falling in love you are still a child. Falling in love mature Little by little love becomes a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. It is not that you are in love, now you are love.
“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling up from your own unconsciousness; from your own past. No one is responsible except you, no one can make you angry, and no one can make you happy.”
“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”.
Osho Quotes #60
“Make as many mistakes as you can, remembering only one thing: don’t make the same mistake again and you will be growing.”
“You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everyone miserable.”
“If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions for the child to explore. Don’t make him fear the unknown, give him support.”
“No one can say anything about you. Everything people say is about themselves. But you become very unstable, because you are still clinging to a false center. That fake center is dependent on others, so you’re always looking at what people are saying about you.”
“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It comes because you are alone. It is giving you the opportunity to go deeper into your loneliness. Instead of jumping from one superficial happiness to another superficial happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation.
“You must live in the world, but remain untouched by it. You must remain in the world, but the world must not remain in you.
“Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding”.
“It’s a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.”
“If you want to learn something, learn confidence, nothing else is needed.”
Osho Quotes #70
“Help the world to be better. Don’t leave the world as you found it. Make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.”
“Even if they can find a lover, they demand perfection; and love is destroyed because of that demand.”
“All my love and respect is for the person who totally accepts himself as he is. He has the courage to face all the pressure from society that is bent on dividing him; in good and bad, in saint and sinner”.
“It’s not about money, power and prestige; it’s a matter of what you intrinsically want to do. Do it, regardless of the results, and your boredom will be gone.”
“This is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you do, don’t let the past move your mind; don’t let the future bother you. Because the past no longer exists and the future does not exist yet. Living in memories, living in the imagination, is living in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing out on what is existential. Naturally, you will be miserable, because you will miss all your life.
Conclusion.
Osho’s phrases invite us to reflect on different areas, but they all lead us to assume the control we have over who we are.
I hope they inspire you and broaden your vision about life, happiness and love 🙂
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