We have the potential to be fully awakened but we may not actualize it. That is our responsibility. We have the seed and the soil and the climate and everything that is needed, but still you may not drop the seed into the soil. You may keep the seed, you may treasure it behind locked […]
Author Archives: Osho
Remember your uniqueness. Love yourself, respect yourself, respect your own voice; listen to it and follow it. It is better to go to hell following your own voice than to go to heaven following somebody else’s because that heaven won’t prove much of a heaven; you will be just a blind follower. Related posts: No […]
Existence speaks in everyone’s heart, but we are so occupied in our heads that we never listen to that still, small voice within. There is so much clamoring, so much unnecessary noise – we have made the head a marketplace. The heart goes on calling and we remain deaf to it. Existence is not far […]
A divine voice is always there in the heart, always calling you. But you are not available; you are engaged in mundane affairs, in ordinary things. Your mind is full of unnecessary rubbish, busy without business. So you go on missing the still small voice within. Once the mind is silent, once thoughts disappear, once […]
Man needs integration, an integration of all the fragments into one whole, into one harmony. And that is the whole effort of religion. The very word religion means that which binds you together. That’s exactly the meaning of yoga too; yoga means union. Religion and yoga are synonymous. When you become crystallized, when you become […]
Be happy with the whole universe, with every flower, and with every river and with every rock and every star. Become one with this continuous eternal celebration. Related posts: No related posts.
Prayer is all over space. The stars are prayerful, the trees are prayerful the oceans are prayerful. Except for man, the whole of existence is always in a state of prayer; only man needs to move toward it consciously. And it is for a certain reason: man is the only conscious animal, hence he has […]
The moment one starts seeking and searching for oneself, one becomes the blessed one. The inquiry itself is the beginning of the transformation. The more passionate the inquiry is, the sooner the transformation will come. Make it intense, make it total. Related posts: No related posts.
Prepare the way for existence to come in; be ready to receive the sun, the light. The only thing that is needed is to become more and more aware, less and less in the mind and more and more outside the mind, watching it, not getting involved. Just become a detached observer. That’s exactly the […]
There is nothing more valuable than meditation. The people who have not tasted meditation are the poorest in the world. They may have all the riches, but they are still beggars because they have not yet known the real treasure – the treasure that cannot be destroyed by death, the treasure that cannot be taken […]