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Quotes of the Week - May 15, 2012:
"His timing was perfect: As women's hair was liberated, so were
their lives." -- Linda Wells, Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief,
describing Vidal Sassoon, the late iconic hairstylist, as a feminist
pioneer due to the haircuts he created for women in 1960s.
"It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that
same-sex couples should be able to get married." -- Barack Obama,
U.S. president, becoming the first sitting American head of state to
declare his support for gay marriage.
"Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.
The task will not be easy." -- Rick Santorum, former Republican
presidential candidate, endorsing onetime rival Mitt Romney.
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| Authors: Osho Quotes, Famous Osho Quotes,
Sayings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh |
Become loving. When you are in the embrace,
become the embrace. Become the kiss.
Forget yourself so totally that you can say,
'I am no more. Only love exists.'
Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating.
Then the blood is not circulating, but love is circulating.
Then eyes are not seeing, love is seeing.
Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving to touch.
Become love and enter everlasting life.
Osho
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds,
look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able
to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply
happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to
become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going
to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.
Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable
how happy flowers are.
Osho
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
I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and
existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to
face the sunrise, you don't need somebody to interpret for
you what a beautiful sunrise it is... And this is my attitude:
you are here, every individual is here, the whole existence
is available. All that you need is just to be silent and listen
to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no
need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there
is no need of any organization. I trust in the individual
categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual
in such a way.
Osho
I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in
this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready
to go with it wherever it leads.
Osho
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you
to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane
and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in
your life.
Osho
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience
it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and
belief.
Osho
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are
holding suffering.
Osho
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole
foolishness of logic.
Osho
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and
say, 'I am the watcher, I am not sadness,' and see the difference.
Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no
more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions
by being identified with them
Osho
Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.
Osho
I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of
thought. I am a mystic who is trying to convey the mysteries
that have become available to me. I will confuse you.
Osho
Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They
inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics
and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing
but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always
preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are
curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental
complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about
the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.
Osho
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation,
as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use
it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach
God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget
yourself totally.
Osho
I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at
all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so
full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter.
It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy,
sheer dance, out of overflowing energy.
Osho
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself,
within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher
levels.
Osho
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply
unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs
no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable.
Osho
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that
is Zen.
Osho
Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole
in the garden, planting new roses in the garden – you
can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can
do it with the hands of a buddha.
Osho
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead –
I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction,
an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference
between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth,
an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured
fiction.
Osho
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because
the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot
see the truth.
Osho
Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, "I
am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have
been trying for almost twenty years to achieve higher consciousness,
but I have been a failure. Why can't I attain?" And on
and on he went. Every sentence started with I. If the grammar
allowed, every sentence would have ended with I. And if everything
was allowed, every sentence would have consisted only of I's.
"I etcetera, I etcetera, I etcetera," it went on
and on. You are filled too much. There is no room, no space
for God to enter in you. You are too crowded. A thousand I's
milling inside – they don't leave any space for anything
to enter in you.
Osho
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could
never come to any truth, ever.
Osho
Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They
inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics
and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing
but sex.
Osho
They [cunning priests, politicians who want to dominate in
name of love] are all against love, because love is unable
to be controlled by them. A man of love acts out of his own
heart, not according to any moral code. A man of love will
not join the army because it is his responsibility to fight
for his nation. A man of love will say there are no nations,
and there is no question of any fight.
Osho
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
Osho
Be – don't try to become.
Osho
The more man becomes aware of the mysterious side of life,
the less he is political; the less he is a Hindu, a Mohammedan,
a Christian; the less is the possibility for his being a fanatic.
A man in tune with the mysterious is humble, loving, caring,
accepting the uniqueness of everybody. He is rejoicing in
the freedom of each individual, because only with freedom
can this garden of humanity be a rich place.
Osho
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.
Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so
that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration.
You will have to move between the two, and if you can move
easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned
the greatest thing in life.
Osho
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal
beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
Osho
Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.
Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners
sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures,
because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous,
they kill your wonder.
Osho
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual
responsibility, you cannot grow.
Osho
Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination.
Accept everything as it is.
Osho
Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage.
When you are desireless, you are liberated.
Osho
When you are no more, only then for the first time will you
be.
Osho
Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look –
in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers,
in a flowing river – wherever you look, look for the
mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate
on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery,
annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself
before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so
total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door
opens, a new perception is achieved.
Osho
Find moments when you are not, and those will be the moments
when you will be for the first time...really. So I am the
white cloud, and the whole effort is to make you also white
clouds drifting in the sky. Nowhere to go, coming from nowhere,
just being there this very moment – perfect. I don't
teach you any ideals, I don't teach you any oughts. I don't
say to you be this, become that. My whole teaching is simply
this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing
is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud.
Osho
Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven,
hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all
creations of human mind: explanations for something which
can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact,
all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies
existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it
as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No,
explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering
heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each
moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth
liberates.
Osho
If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely
empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other,
and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will
be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have
some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
Osho
The stronger a person's "I" is, the smaller his
capacity to become one with anybody. The "I" is
a wall in between; it proclaims itself. Its proclaimation
is : "You are you and I am I. There is a distance between
the two." Then no matter how much "I" love
you, "I" may embrace you to my bosom, still we are
two. No matter how closely we meet, still there is a gap in
between - I am me and you are you. That is why even the most
intimate experiences fail to bring people close. Bodies sit
close to each other but the persons remain far away. As long
as there is the "I" inside the sense of "the
other" cannot be destroyed.
Sartre has made a wonderful statement: "The other is
hell." But he didn't explain why the other is "the
other." The other is "the other" because I
am "I". And as long as I am "I," the world
around is "the other" - separate and apart. And
as long as there is separateness there can be no experience
of love.
Osho
The world is not a problem; the problem is your awareness.
Osho
In sex there may be relaxation. In sex there may be physiological
health and hygiene. But there is no growth. You remain animal.
With love you become human. With love you become upright.
With love you stand erect on earth. With sex you are again
animal, you are horizontal on the earth, just moving like
other animals, crawling. With love you are erect, vertical.
Osho |
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| Osho: An Indian mystic, philosopher
and spiritual teacher. Born Chandra Mohan Jain on December 11, 1931
in India, he called himself Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s
and 1980s and took the name Osho in 1989. He died on January 19, 1990. |
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