“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.”
Osho
PinYes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.PinThe way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.PinPeople say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.PinIf you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”
Osho
PinTo be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.PinMany people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people.PinA certain darkness is needed to see the stars.PinFriendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.PinLife repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.PinTruth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.PinDon’t be so short of trust, and don’t be in a hurry. If I say something, wait, search, and you will find the way. And when you find the way, you also find that trust is arising in you.
“The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.”
Osho
PinLife begins where fear ends.PinRespect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.PinLove is the goal, life is the journey.PinLove in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.PinLife is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.PinOnce you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.PinYou cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.PinIf you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.PinDarkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.PinYou feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you.PinDon’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.PinA little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.PinDrop 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.
PinCreativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.PinCommit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.PinFalling in love, you remain a child; rising in love, you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.PinIt is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.PinMillions 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.PinLove the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.PinA woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.PinThe feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.PinExistence cannot go wrong. If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.PinIn your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence.PinDon’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.PinEach 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.PinNever be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.PinYou are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.PinWhat is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.PinOnly laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.PinMind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.PinGet out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.PinBe – don’t try to become.PinDon’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.PinMy meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.PinI live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.PinThey say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!PinTo avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.PinYou should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
“The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.”
Osho
Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh) Short Biography
Born on 11 December 1931 in Kuchwada, Bhopal State, British India, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, more popularly known as Osho, was a spiritual leader, mystic, and the founder of the Rajneesh movement.
At the age of 21, Osho had a spiritual awakening which led him to view sex as a gateway to “superconsciousness.” In 1966, he resigned from his post as a professor and became a teacher of meditation and a guru.
In 1970, Osho initiated his 1st group of disciples or neo-sannyasins. Four years later Osho established an ashram at Pune where he spoke from 1974 – 1981 and taught those who attended dynamic meditation.
Osho moved to the United States in 1981 to establish Rajneeshpuram a city he had envisioned. The project was later abandoned, Osho was deported from America and returned to Pune.
Osho became known for his progressive approach towards sexuality in contrast to other Indian teachers at that time.
Even after his death Osho’s followers still spread his beliefs from the Osho Meditation Centers around the world.
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