Osho's Unforgettable Quotes

Women deserve respect

"If you cannot respect women, you cannot respect anybody else, because it is from women you come. The woman mothered you for nine months, then she took every care, she loved you for years. And then again, you cannot live without a woman. She is your solace, your warmth..."

Madness means going beyond the mind

"All madmen may not be mystics, but all mystics are mad. By mad, I mean they have gone beyond the mind. The madman may have fallen below the mind, and the mystic may have gone beyond the mind, but one thing is similar. Both are not in their minds."

Nightmares reflect pattern of life

"When you go to sleep, many of you suffer from nightmares. Many write to me, what to do about nightmares? You cannot do anything directly about nightmares; you will have to change your pattern of life. Your nightmares are produced by what you are doing and thinking in the day."

God is inside you

"Deva means God, surati means remembrance. Remembrance of God. God has not to be searched for but only remembered. Because we have not lost him, he is not to be found. We have simply forgotten him. He is just to be remembered. God is there within you..."

Sex is not life

"If a person has known only sex as life, he is stupid, he is an idiot. The mediocre mind never allows the genius, the mediocre person is happy with other mediocre people. The stupid people are happy with stupid leaders."

Bliss comes from harmony

"What is bliss? Bliss is the feeling that comes to you when the observe-r has become the observe-d. Bliss is the feeling that comes to you when you are in harmony, not fragmented, not disintegrated, not divided. Feeling is not something that happens from the outside. It is the melody inside..."

From duality to awareness

"Awareness cannot exist with duality, and mind cannot exist without duality. Awareness is non-dual, and mind is dual. If you go outwards, you will move into the world of duality. If you go inwards, you will move into the world of non-duality. You will become non-polar."

Meditate regularly and passionately

"Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of regularity. It has to be very persistent and a continuity has to be maintained. Even to miss for one day is to destroy much."

You are born with pure intelligence

"What is understanding? Understanding is pure intelligence. That pure intelligence is originally yours. You are born with it. Nobody can give you intelligence. Knowledge can be given to you, not intelligence. Intelligence is your own sharpened being. Through deep meditation, one sharpens oneself. Through meditation, one drops borrowed thoughts."

Beware of arrogance

"Wealth can fill you with arrogance, and so can renunciation. So arrogance is the only obstruction. When you worship or pray, it is all a display of your egotism and arrogance. It is a decoration for your ego. Real prayer is when you are not, when the worshipper is no more."

Create a sanctuary

"If possible, have a separate room for meditation, and use it exclusively for meditation. Don't use that room for any other purpose. It may be a small room, but keep it under lock and key."

Schizophrenia is inner battle

"A person is schizophrenic, split, divided. Psychoanalysis will deal with this split, with how to make this split workable, with how to adjust this man so that he can function, so that he can live in society peacefully. Psychoanalysis will tackle the problem, the schizophrenia. If this man comes to Buddha, Buddha will not talk about the schizophrenic state. He will say, meditate so that the inner being becomes one. When the inner being becomes one, the split will disappear on the periphery."

Don't be an extremist

"I am not for hope; I am not for hopelessness. I am against all extremism. All excess is futile. Buddha used to say, My path is the middle path. That is the path of transcendence. This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life."

Krishna is infinite

"Not one commentary on Krishna is complete. It is not possible, unless someone like Krishna himself comments on him. Every interpretation of Krishna is incomplete and partial. There are many sides to a single thing, and Krishna is a man of infinite dimensions."

Life is death...yes

"Logic says life is life and can never be death. How can life be death? But in reality, life is moving every moment into death. Life is death. Logic says love is love and can never be hate; but love is moving every moment into hate."