Osho Short Quotes and Sayings

Osho Short Quotes

  1. My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.
  2. To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.
  3. My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.
  4. Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
  5. Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
  6. Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
  7. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
  8. Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.
  9. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.
  10. Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.
  11. Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.
  12. When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
  13. To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.
  14. To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
  15. Let sannyas be the turning point. That’s what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.