#osho

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

Life begins where fear ends.

Courage is a love affair with the unknown.

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.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously.

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.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. If you are a little quiet, you will start feeling your way.

Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. The more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. The problem may be anything, but the answer is one: meditation is the answer.

To be in love is to be in paradise. To love without demanding anything in return is the greatest joy.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

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

Live intensely, live totally, here and now, for only the present moment is real.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

The mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

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

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

In love the other is important; in lust oneself is important.

A single moment of total awareness is more valuable than a lifetime of unconsciousness.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't demand — relax. If you relax, it is there.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own.

Whenever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death.

Freedom is the highest value, and if love is not giving you freedom then it is not love. Freedom is the criteria.

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny — he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed.

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

When you drop expectations, you have learned to live.