Seven best Osho quotes about life. Osho quotes and sayings - your daily companion on the path to meditation

He did not profess any one religion and believed that the most important criterion in a person's life is whether he is happy or not. Osho himself said that he does not have a system, because systems are initially dead.

At birth he was given the name Chandra Mohan Jein, but in history he remained as “Osho” ​​- literally translated as “monk” or “teacher”. His instructions truly inspire and force you to reconsider your approach to life.

Osho's tips to know yourself

Oh happiness

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, the only thing that matters is whether you are a happy person or not.

People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden to them. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as holy as prayer.

If you are rich, don't think about it, if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously. If you are able to live in peace, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering only comes from taking life seriously. Start treating life like a game, enjoy it.

About love

Love, and let love be as natural to you as breathing. If you love a person, don't demand anything from him; otherwise you will build a wall between you at the very beginning. Don't expect anything. If something comes to you, be grateful. If nothing comes, then it doesn’t need to come, there’s no need for it. You have no right to wait.

Never mistake anything else for love... In the presence of another, suddenly you feel happy. Just because you are together, you feel ecstasy. The very presence of another satisfies something deep in your heart... something begins to sing in your heart. The very presence of another helps you to be more collected, you become more individual, more centered, more balanced. Then it's love. Love is not a passion, not an emotion. Love is a very deep understanding that someone completes you. Someone makes you a vicious circle. The presence of another increases your presence. Love gives you the freedom to be yourself.

About my path

First, listen to yourself. Learn to enjoy your own company. Become so happy that you will no longer be bothered whether someone comes to you or not. You are already full. You don't wait in trepidation to see if someone will knock on your door. Are you at home already. If someone comes, great. No - that's also good. Only with such an attitude can you start a relationship.

Every action leads to an immediate result. Be careful and observe. A mature person is one who has found himself, who has determined what is right and wrong, good and bad for him. He did it himself, so he has a huge advantage over those who do not have an opinion.

We are all unique. No one has the right to tell you what is right and what is wrong. Life is an experiment in which we define these changing concepts every day. Sometimes you may do something wrong, but that is how you will benefit greatly.

About God

There are times when God comes and knocks on your door. It can happen in one of a million ways - through a woman, a man, a child, love, a flower, a sunset or a sunrise... Be open to hear it.

About fear

Courage is moving into the unknown, despite all fears. Courage is not the absence of fear. Fearlessness happens when you become bolder and bolder. But at the very beginning the difference between a coward and a daredevil is not so great. The only difference is that a coward listens to his fears and follows them, while a daredevil leaves them aside and moves on.

Osho's sayings

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

The world brings neither good nor evil in itself. He is indifferent to people. Everything that happens around us is just a reflection of our own thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions. The world is a big mirror.

Sin is when you don't rejoice.

When you think you are deceiving others, you are only deceiving yourself.

Being healthy is a great religious value. A person who does not love himself will never be able to love anyone else. The first wave must grow in your heart. If it has not grown for yourself, it will not grow for anyone else, because everyone else is much further away from you. It is like a stone thrown into a still lake: the first ripples appear around the stone, and then they continue to spread to the distant shores. The first ripples of love should appear directly around you. A person must love his body, love his soul, love himself completely. And this is natural; otherwise you wouldn't survive at all. And that's wonderful because it decorates you. A person who loves himself becomes graceful and elegant. A person who loves himself will inevitably become more silent, more meditative, more prayerful than a person who does not love himself.

Too much focus on the intellect, too much training of the head cuts off all connections with the Heart. Thousands of people do not know what the Heart is! The heart beats, but life energy does not pass through it and, bypassing it, goes directly to the head. You can be very skillful when it comes to logic, you can manage logic, but you cannot manage...
Love is when you allow God to find you.

Take a look at this tip.
You may not be able to understand it right away, but the message is very simple.
The message is: don't interfere.
The message is: don't judge.
The message is this: you are nobody to change anyone else.
It's none of your business. You are not meant to do this.
Live yours and let others live theirs.
Let everyone have the freedom to do their own thing.

Don't whine, don't complain.
Don't beg anything from God or the Devil.
They won't give you anything.
Only you yourself can create Joy for yourself.
Look for the Joy within you.
Develop your talents, fulfill your wishes and dance at the celebration of Life.
If you think that a loved one can give you Joy, then you are deeply mistaken.
As soon as you think that, you become a vampire who is trying to suck the Joy out of another person.
Stop! This is a dead end. Other people do not have your Joy.
Remember: if you suffer, you suffer because of yourself.
A quarrel between lovers is an attempt to scratch Joy out of the other.
You can get Joy from other people only when you love them.
And you don’t change them, but help them blossom.
Help them to reveal their talents and live a full Life.
This applies to your loved ones, your children, and everyone around you.
Just love them and have fun with it.

If everyone attacks me, I just laugh... And if you are offended, it means that there is pain inside you! You don't know yourself. The part of you that can be offended is your ignorance. If someone calls you an idiot and you agree, you will be offended, but if someone calls you an idiot, and you know that you are not an idiot, you will just laugh! The person doesn't know you..., do you understand? If you are offended, it means you accept that you are an idiot. He said you are an idiot - you got angry, that means deep down you think you are an idiot. By being offended, you show yourself. When you know yourself, no one can harm you. They may harm your body, they may harm your mind, they may harm your emotions, but are you the mind the body or the emotions? When someone bullies you just close your eyes, if it's true then accept it, if not then laugh, don't be serious! Guilt, resentment - you're still young! just shake it up, dance!

When you see the sunrise early in the morning, watch in silence and the sunrise also begins within you, this is prayer. When a bird soars in the sky and you soar in the sky. And you have forgotten that you are separate - this is prayer. Wherever division disappears, prayer arises. When you become one with existence, with the Universal Whole, that is prayer.
Prayer is the experience of resurrection, it is rebirth, it is the birth of a new vision... it is a new dimension, it is a new way of looking at things, it is a new way of life. Not something you do; but something that you become. This state of being has nothing to do with the words you say in a temple, mosque, church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.
This is attunement with the universal, with the whole... to enter into harmony with the whole is prayer.

Intelligence is not an achievement. You are born intelligent. Trees are intelligent in their own way, they have enough intelligence to live their own lives. Birds are intelligent, animals are intelligent. In fact, what religion means by God is nothing more than that the universe is intelligent, that intelligence is hidden everywhere in it. And if you have eyes to see, you will see it everywhere. there is a mind.

Don't follow others, don't imitate, because imitation and following creates stupidity. You are born with an immense capacity for intelligence. You are born with light inside. Listen to that small, quiet voice inside and it will give you direction. Nobody else can give you direction, nobody else can model your life, because you are unique. There has never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be anyone exactly like you again.
By following others, you can instill a beautiful character in yourself, but you cannot achieve a beautiful consciousness, and unless you have a beautiful consciousness, you can never be free. You will stumble in the dark night of the soul. Only your inner light can become the dawn.

But the ordinary human being does not want to be free. It wants to be dependent. It wants someone to lead it. Why? - because then a person can shift all responsibility onto the shoulders of someone else. And the more responsibility you place on other people’s shoulders, the less likely it is that you will ever become free. It is responsibility, the challenge of responsibility, that gives rise to. Don't miss yours... Be a light... to yourself...

The Awakened live in one common world. Each of the sleepers is in his own.

Bliss is always homeless, always a tramp. Happiness has a home, unhappiness has a home, but bliss has no home. It is like a white cloud that has no roots anywhere.
As soon as you take root, the bliss disappears and you are earthbound and clinging. Home means safety, security, comfort, convenience. By and large, if all these things are combined into one, home means death. The more alive you are, the more homeless you are.
To be a seeker - this is the main meaning - means to live in danger, to live in insecurity, to live without knowing what will happen next... always remain open, always be able to be surprised, maintain a sense of the miraculous. As long as you can wonder, you are alive. The English words wonder - “to feel the wonderful and amazing” - and wander - “to wander, wander” - come from the same root. A mind that is chained to a place loses its sense of wonder and wonder because it cannot wander and wander. Wander like a migratory bird, like a cloud, and every moment will bring countless surprises. Stay homeless. Being homeless does not mean not living in a home; it only means to be unattached to anything. Even if you live in a palace, do not be attached to it. If it's time to move on, go - and don't look back. Nothing is holding you back. Use everything, enjoy everything, but remain the master.

And remember that the most ordinary desire, to be extraordinary, is the most ordinary, universal desire, inherent in everyone. Only that one person is extraordinary, who has no desire to be extraordinary, who is completely calm about his ordinariness.

Becomes a goddess when she explores and accepts her femininity.

It almost always happens that in love people become like children - because love accepts. She doesn't demand anything. She doesn't say, "Be such and such." Love only says: “Be yourself. You are good as is. You are beautiful just the way you are." Love accepts you. Suddenly you begin to throw away all your “this is how it should be”, ideals, personal structures. Like a snake, you shed your old skin and become a child again. Love brings youth.

Even positive emotions, if they are false, are ugly; and even negative emotions, if they are genuine, are beautiful.

You know everything. You always knew everything. But you will go halfway around the world. You will read hundreds of books. You will change dozens of teachers. And only then will you understand that you don’t need to go anywhere, that all the books are about one thing, and there is also one teacher, and He is inside you...

If you don't be yourself, you will never know who you are.

Love is a flower so delicate that it cannot be made eternal by force.

Don't approach life with clenched fists. Live without preconceptions about life. Why can't we live without expectations?

Uniqueness is a gift from God, specialness is your own attempt.

All attempts of the mind to understand life are doomed to failure, because all these understandings are temporary. Today you understand life this way, in a month - differently, in ten years - completely differently. Life is a mystery, and a mystery cannot be understood, it can only be lived...

Only when you give your love do you show that you have love, only when you give your life do you show that you have life.

To be in harmony with yourself means to allow everything, no matter what.

We are taught to love even our enemy, but if you are truly a person of love, then where can you find an enemy?

Fighting with others is only a trick to avoid internal struggle.

Don't think that you are an exception. The exception is completely different from you.

The thought of the need to change oneself is a condemnation of oneself.

Love having eyes; knows when to say “no” and when to say “yes”.

You find in others only what you first found in yourself. For a joyful heart, even the dark night shines.

All splendor is in the moment, not in eternity.

Happiness comes from feeling needed.

You are responsible for who you are. Don't shift responsibility to someone else, otherwise you will never be free from suffering. No matter how hard and painful it is: it is you and only you who are responsible for everything that happens, has happened, and will happen to you.

Life is an experience, not a theory. It doesn't need explanation. She is here, in all her splendor, simply to be lived, enjoyed and rejoiced in.

You don't have to look for happiness - you have to be happy.

The eyes are the door leading to the mind.

A state when there are no reasons, but you feel the fullness of life, the fullness of consciousness, and there is a soul.

Millions of people have chosen to avoid sensitivity. They became thick-skinned, and only to protect themselves so that no one could hurt them. But the price is very high. No one can hurt them, but no one can make them happy either.

Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less and feel more. Don’t get attached to thoughts, immerse yourself in sensations... Then your heart will come to life.

If you want to be a happy person, don’t rummage through your memory.

There are times when God comes and knocks on your door. This is love - God knocking at your door. Through a woman, through a man, through a child, through love, through a flower, through a sunset or dawn... God can knock in a million different ways.

Immature people, falling in love, destroy each other's freedom, create dependence, and build a prison. Mature people in love help each other to be free; they help each other eliminate any dependencies.
When love lives in dependence, ugliness appears. And when love flows with freedom, beauty appears.

If you love, but you are not there, let go. If you are loved, but you are not, evaluate and take a closer look. If the love is mutual, fight.

Whenever you are faced with a choice, be careful: do not choose what is convenient, comfortable, respectable, recognized by society, honorable. Choose what resonates in your heart. Choose what you would like to do, no matter what the consequences.

There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret about the past, anxiety about the future, and ungratefulness for the present.

The ego is an eternal beggar, it constantly needs something; and love is charitable. The ego only understands the language of “take”; the language of “give” is the language of love.
Explanation of the quote:
08/28/1968 Bombay.

These tears... Even though they are part of the body, they express something that does not belong to the body.
Explanation of the quote:
From letters to students and friends (from 1962 to 1971) - "A Cup of Tea"

Allow yourself the luxury of not interacting with unpleasant people.

The world comes to you as it comes from you.

Only the inferior thinks of superiority. A real person, a genuine person, is not the first and not the last, he simply is - unique and there is no one above him, no one below him.

Despair only happens when there is expectation. Nothing can bring me to despair: I expect nothing from you.

Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting you is a gift.

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only justifications.

Falling is part of life, rising to your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift and being happy is your choice.

We are all unique. Never ask anyone what is right and what is wrong. Life is an experiment to find out what is right and what is wrong. Sometimes you may do something wrong, but it will give you relevant experience from which you will immediately benefit.
Every action leads to an immediate result. Just be alert and watch. A mature person is one who has observed himself and found what is right and wrong for him; what is good and what is bad. And thanks to the fact that he found it himself, he has enormous authority: even if the whole World says something different, nothing will change for him. He has his own experience to draw on, and that's enough.

Love has three dimensions. One is the dependency dimension; it happens to most people. The husband depends on the wife, the wife depends on the husband; they exploit each other, subjugate each other, reduce each other to commodities. In ninety-nine percent of cases in the world, this is exactly what happens. That is why love, which can open the doors of heaven, only opens the doors of hell.
The second possibility is love between two independent people. This also happens occasionally. But this also brings suffering, because there is constant conflict. No attunement is possible; both are so independent that no one is ready to compromise or adapt to the other. With poets, artists, thinkers, scientists, with all those who live in a kind of independence, at least in their minds, it is impossible to live; they are too eccentric people. They give the other freedom, but their freedom seems more like indifference than freedom, and it looks like they don't care, like it doesn't matter to them. They let each other live in their own space. The relationship seems only superficial; they are afraid to go deeper into each other because they are more attached to their freedom than to love and do not want to compromise.
And the third possibility is interdependence. It happens very rarely, but when it does, it's heaven on earth. Two people, neither dependent nor independent, but in immeasurable synchronicity, as if breathing together, one soul in two bodies - when this happens, love happens. Just call this love. The first two types don't really love, they just take measures - social, psychological, biological measures. The third is something spiritual.

Love is just like the scent of a flower. She doesn't create relationships; it does not require you to be this or that, to behave in a certain way, to act in a certain way. She doesn't demand anything. She just shares.
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Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh). Love. Freedom. Loneliness

Three proofs that Christ was a Jew:
First, he was thirty-three years old and still living with his mother. Secondly, he believed that his mother was a virgin. And thirdly, his mother believed that her son was a god.

Old man Rubinstein constantly pesters his family.
- Look at me! I don't smoke, drink or have any interest in women, and tomorrow I'll celebrate my eightieth birthday!
- Will you celebrate? - the grandson asks again. - I wonder how?

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatever people say, they are talking about themselves.

People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden to them. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as holy as prayer.

The first thing you need to realize is that, whether you like it or not, you are alone. Loneliness is your very nature. You can try to forget him, you can try not to be alone, finding friends, finding lovers, mingling with the crowd... But whatever you do, it will remain on the surface. Deep inside, your loneliness is not affected, it remains unaffected.

Rebellion is the flowering of a being.

I want you to stop playing all games - worldly, spiritual, absolutely all games that all of humanity has played so far. These games slow you down, they prevent you from blossoming, becoming conscious. I want you to get rid of all this garbage that is slowing you down. I want you to be left alone, completely alone, because then you will have no one to turn to for help, you will not be able to “stick” to any prophet, and thus you will not have the idea that Gautama Buddha will save you. Only when you are left alone - in endless loneliness - will you have no choice but to find your inner center. There is no path, nowhere to go, no advisor, no Teacher, no Master. It seems incredibly cruel and harsh, but I do it because you, and the people who didn't do it don't love you and never have loved you. They loved only themselves, they liked to have a large crowd around them - and the larger the crowd, the thicker their ego became.

Make as many mistakes as possible, just remember one thing: don’t make the same mistake twice. And you will grow.

Love must be of such quality that it brings freedom, not new chains; love gives you wings and supports you to fly as high as possible.

Throw away all the false faces you've learned to wear. Drop all masks. Be real. Open your whole heart; be naked. There should be no secrets between two lovers, otherwise there is no love. Drop all secrecy. This is politics; secrecy is politics. She shouldn't be in love. You shouldn't hide anything. Whatever arises in your heart must be transparent to your beloved, and whatever arises in her heart must be transparent to you. You must become two transparent beings for each other.

If you love a person, you will not interfere in his personal life. You will not dare to violate the boundaries of his inner world.

Don't let your doubt die. This is the most precious thing you have, because someday doubt will help you discover the truth.

If you catch a bird, then do not keep it in a cage, do not make it want to fly away from you, but cannot. And make it so that she could fly away, but did not want to.

You must know that freedom is the highest value and if love does not give you freedom, then it is not love.

We have forgotten how to wait. It's almost a forgotten art. And our greatest treasure is to be able to wait for the right moment.

He who is ready to go mad reaches God.

Only an unhappy person tries to prove that he is happy; only a dead person tries to prove that he is alive; only a coward tries to prove that he is brave. Only a person who knows his baseness tries to prove his greatness.

When you are suffering, you can go to hell: to a disco, to a restaurant, on a date with your boyfriend or girlfriend. When you are suffering, this is what you need to do. But when you are happy, healthy, feeling good, cheerful and cheerful, when everything around you is fine - don’t waste this time on all sorts of nonsense. This is the most appropriate moment to jump into higher states, peace, ecstasy and bliss.

Never forget this truth: what you get from life is what you give to life.

Whatever contains a goal outside of itself is intended for the mediocre mind, and everything that contains a goal within itself is intended for a truly intelligent person.

People have completely forgotten that they need to live. Who has time for this? Everyone teaches someone else what they should be, and no one ever seems satisfied. If a person wants to live, then he must learn one thing: accept things as they are, and accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start preparing for life in the future. All the suffering in the world comes from the fact that you completely forgot that you need to live, you began to engage in activities that have nothing to do with life.

Just being yourself means being beautiful.

Have you ever asked yourself the most important question: do problems really exist or are you creating them? People clutch at their misfortunes in order to prevent emptiness in themselves.

Becoming too serious is the greatest misfortune.

There are people who turned their illness into a blessing, who turned their blindness into inner insight, who turned their death into new life.

The only time you have is now; the only place is here.

The crowd doesn't like loners; it recognizes only false people who imitate each other in everything. The crowd despises anyone who keeps to himself, who stands up for his rights, defends his freedom, does his own thing, regardless of the consequences.

If you are rich, don't think about it, if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously. If you are able to live in peace, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering is the result of taking life seriously; bliss is the result of the game. Take life as a game, enjoy it.

You only need one thing - to be natural, as natural as your breathing. Love your life. Don't live according to any commandments. Don't live according to other people's ideas. Don't live the way people demand of you. Listen to your own heart. Become silent, listen to the small, weak voice within you and follow it.

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: at its core it is something scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has a lot to do with aesthetics. It is impossible to believe that a sensitive, conscious, understanding, loving person can eat meat. And if he eats meat, then something is missing - he is still somewhere not aware of what he is doing, not aware of the meaning of his actions.

And the person continues to live on this poisoned meat. It is not surprising if you remain angry, violent, aggressive; it `s naturally. If you live by killing, you will not respect life; you are hostile to life. But a person who is at enmity with life cannot go to prayer - because prayer means reverence for life.

Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way.

You are a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear.

There is beauty and splendor and positivity in solitude; in the feeling that you are lonely - poverty, negativity and gloom.

Love knows how to go into the unknown. Love knows how to throw away all guarantees. Love knows how to rush into the unfamiliar and unknown. Love is courage. Trust love.

Until you are able to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Man created God in his own image and likeness.
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Christopher Hitchens. God is not love. How religion poisons everything

Love is not a relationship, but a state.

There is no such thing as too much wisdom. Everyone, perhaps, has moments of thoughtfulness, when you begin to doubt, when you want something more. In this case, the philosophy of the Indian mystic Osho comes to the rescue. Despite his commitment to religion and mysticism, his statements are close to life. We present to your attention Osho quotes. In our selection you will find statements by the philosopher about life, love, and happiness. The selection also includes Osho quotes about women and men.

As is typical in Indian traditions, the philosopher changed several names during his life, which reflected the essence of his views and teachings. The last name was Osho, which means “monarch” or “teacher”. The philosopher's works are published under his last name.

Osho knows exactly what happiness is. It does not consist in money or benefits; a person’s ability to live on earth is already happiness. The philosopher is sure that happiness is near each of us always and everywhere. To understand that we are surrounded by happiness, you just need to look around: the beauty of nature, the opportunity to communicate and believe in yourself - that’s happiness.

Osho pays a lot of attention to love, and here it is difficult to disagree with his views. Love is not measured by anything, it lies in the ability to give and demand nothing in return.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, the only thing that matters is whether you are a happy person or not.

What matters is not how much money you have, what matters is are you happy with it?

Happiness is always with you.

Believe in it and it will never leave you.

Happiness is where you are - where you are, there is happiness. It surrounds you; this is a natural phenomenon.

Are you unhappy? Look around - aren't you surrounded by happiness?!

Happiness happens when you are in tune with your life, so harmoniously in tune that everything you do is a joy.

If you are surrounded by loved ones, you have a job you love and you are a healthy person - this is happiness.

Real Happiness is here and now. It has nothing to do with the Past and the Future.

Happiness lies in the Present.

Life itself has no meaning, but it is an opportunity to create it.

Everyone is looking for something to live for.

You can enjoy life, you can rejoice in life, you can become part of its mystery, but it is absolutely impossible to understand it as an outside observer.

In life, no one stands on the sidelines; everyone takes an active part in it.

Sin is when you don't enjoy life.

You should be happy that you are alive...

The best way to miss life is to have a certain attitude towards it.

In life you need to be able to adapt to everything.

Life is not a mechanical process, and it cannot be safe. This is an unpredictable mystery. Nobody knows what will happen in the next moment.

Life is full of unpredictable moments, that's what makes it interesting.

Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way...

If you love, they will love you too.

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses...

Sometimes we ourselves don’t know what stops us inside.

How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that money can buy is already cheap!

Everything that has true value cannot be bought with money.

Don’t look for the best, but look for yours, because the best will not always be yours, but yours is always better!

When you value yours, they will never leave you.

Just being yourself means being beautiful.

Beauty lies in naturalness and lies in the real “I”.

Never expect anyone else to change. Change always needs to start with yourself.

Change yourself and you will never have to try to change anyone again.

The only time you have is now; the only place is here.

You need to be happy here and now!

You are a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear.

Problems do not arise out of nowhere; as a rule, we create them for ourselves.

Until you are able to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Learn to give up unnecessary things in life.

The only person on earth we can change is you.

There is no need to try to change the world, you need to change yourself.

Everything will come by itself – you just need to create favorable conditions. Everything will come - you just need to accept it. Life will definitely smile at you.

For good luck to come to you, you need to wait for it with open arms, and not withdraw into yourself and complain about life.

Don’t look for the best, but look for yours, because the best will not always be yours, but yours is always better!

It's not what someone else has that's good, it's what you have that's good.

Heaven is where the flowers of your true Self bloom. Hell is where your Self is trampled, and something is imposed on you.

You will be happy only where your opinion is accepted and not tried to change it.

Love knows nothing of duty.

In love, no one owes anything; everyone acts according to the dictates of their heart.

Debt is a burden, a formality. Love is joy, generosity; love is informal.

There is real love, formalities for it are just formalities, nothing more.

Love is food for the soul. Love is for the soul what food is for the body. Without food the body is weak, without love the soul is weak.

Without love the soul does not live, it exists.

Without love a person can be rich, healthy, famous; but he cannot be normal because he knows nothing about inner values.

Only when you fall in love do you understand that the heart can also speak.

Love is a function as natural as breathing. And when you love a person, don't start demanding; otherwise you close the doors from the very beginning. Don't expect anything. If something comes, feel grateful.

In love, everything should happen naturally.

Loving means sharing; to be greedy is to accumulate.

He who loves tries to give everything he has.

Greed only wants and never gives, but love only knows how to give and does not ask for anything in return; she shares without conditions.

In love they don’t consider theirs, they simply share it.

Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.

Love is a state of mind; you can love and not be in a relationship.

Giving love is a real, wonderful experience, because then you are the emperor.

It's even better when you give love and receive it in return.

Don't be a beggar. At least as far as love is concerned, be an emperor, because love is your inexhaustible quality, you can give as much as you want.

There are no limits in love.

Love is not quantity, it is quality, and a quality of a special category that grows through bestowal and dies if you withhold it.

Love is measured not by the number of meetings, but by the trembling of souls in love.

Man and woman are the doors to God. The desire for love is the desire for God.

When love penetrates their hearts, it means that God dwells in their souls.

Love is not a phenomenon that can be limited.

Love cannot be measured, weighed or limited; love is incommensurable.

Love is the only real thing that is worth experiencing.

Love is happiness.

If you want to change a woman, agree with her. If you want to know what's really on a woman's mind, then look at her, but don't listen.

A woman's gaze and gestures sometimes speak more than words.

A selection of Osho quotes about love and relationships.

Quotes taken from various books by Osho.

Osho Quotes about Love

Love is harmony.

Before you think about how to receive love, start giving. If you give, you receive; there is no other way.

People think that they can only fall in love when they find a worthy person - nonsense! You will never find one like this.

People think that they will only fall in love when they find the perfect man or woman. Nonsense! You will never find them because the perfect woman and the perfect man do not exist. And if they exist, then they don’t care about your love.

Love is not quantity, it is quality, and a special category of quality that grows through giving and dies if you withhold it.

Love knows no boundaries.

Love cannot be jealous because love cannot possess. You own someone - that means you killed someone and turned him into property.

If the other is your need, you can only exploit, manipulate, dominate, but you cannot love.

Love should give freedom; love is freedom. Love will make the beloved more and more free, love will give him wings, love will open the boundless skies.

Here is the basic requirement of love: “I accept a person as he is.”

You cannot disappoint true love because, first of all, there are no expectations.

I teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. Turn your light on yourself first, become your own light first. Surround yourself with the energy of love. Love the body, love the mind. Love your entire mechanism, your entire organism. By "love" we mean: accept him as he is. Don't try to suppress.

A person who hates himself will hate everyone else - he is so angry, violent, he remains in constant rage. A person who hates himself... how can he expect others to love him?

Osho Quotes on Relationships

Quotes are taken from different Osho books, respectively, from different contexts, so you may notice that the word “relationship” in a particular quote has its own meaning or connotation.

Relationships are a mystery. And since they exist between two people, it depends on the two. When two people meet, a new world is created. At this meeting, something new comes into existence, which did not exist before, which has never existed before. And this new event changes and transforms both. When you're not in a relationship, that's one thing; in a relationship you immediately become something else. Something new has happened.

Each person is a whole world, a mystery, with his own long past and endless future. At first, only the peripheries are encountered. But if the relationship becomes close, deeper, then, gradually, the centers begin to meet. When the centers meet, it is called love. A meeting on the periphery is an acquaintance.

Love is rare. To meet another person's inner center you have to make an inner revolution, because if you want to meet a person at his center, you will have to allow that person to show his center too. You must become vulnerable, open. It's risky. Allowing another to come to your center is a risk, a danger, because you don't know what that person can do to you. And when all your secrets are known, when everything secret has become clear, when you are completely open, what this person will do, you never know. Scary. That's why we never open.

Lovers promise each other all sorts of things that they cannot fulfill. Then disappointment comes, the distance becomes greater, a quarrel, conflict, struggle begins, and life, which should have become happier, simply turns into a long, endless misfortune.

If you live with a woman or a man and do not love them, you are living in sin. If you are married to someone and do not love that person, and yet continue to live and make love with him or her, you are committing a sin against love.

Living with a woman you don't love, living with a man you don't love, living for security, living for security, living for financial support, living for any reason except love, makes it nothing less than prostitution.

Relationships as such are a very subtle type of psychological slavery. Either you enslave another, or you yourself become enslaved.

Parents fulfill their duty towards their children, and in return, children must fulfill their duty towards their parents. The wife performs her duty towards her husband, and the husband fulfills his duty towards his wife. Where is the love?

From fear of the future you move into a sense of ownership. You put shackles around the person you think you love.

Two people can be very loving together. The more they love, the less possibility there is for any relationship. The more they love, the more freedom exists between them. The more they love, the less possibility of any demands, any dominance, any expectations. And naturally, there is no question of any disappointment.

Love one another, but do not make love a bondage. It should be a free gift, given or accepted, but there should be no requirement. Otherwise, you will be together, but still remain distant, like the stars.

Don't demand perfection, otherwise you won't find any love flowing into you. On the contrary, you will become completely unloving. People who demand perfection are very unloving people, neurotic people. Even if they can find a lover or lover, they demand perfection, love is destroyed due to this demand.

What you call love right now is directed at someone, limited by someone. And love is not a phenomenon that can be limited. You can hold it in your open hands, but not in your fist. The moment your fingers are clenched into a fist, they are empty. The moment your hands are open, the entire existence is available to you.

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Osho Quotes about Love and Relationships

Osho is an amazing person, some consider him a sage. The first acquaintance with his books made a huge impression on me. Once in a store I took a look through one of his books and... it captivated me... I read without stopping, I wanted to absorb and absorb. Of course, I bought it and read it to the end. Since then, Osho's books have always been with me.

What he writes about and how...it simply turns your mind around and makes you wake up. It's like some kind of transformation is happening. You read his book and feel that what is written resonates with you so much, so in tune with what is inside you. It’s as if you already knew all this from somewhere before, and now you’re just finding confirmation of your thoughts. Amazing feeling. Surely it is familiar to you too. How does reading his books make you feel?

I want to read and re-read Osho’s books after a while, as if for the first time. It seems that in every written line there is so much deepest wisdom that you want to absorb, think about, and realize. And some phrases are particularly catchy and etched in your memory. I will share some of these Osho quotes on life in this article.

Osho Quotes about Life

“Don't wear masks! Be yourself! Whatever life has created for you, accept it, enjoy it, be proud of it. Rejoice! Be grateful to God for creating you, no matter how you turn out. Don’t give up anything, because when you condemn something in yourself, you condemn God himself... He is your creator, he created you this way.”

“Live moment by moment without thinking. After all, prudence is your most favorite mask.”

“Life is not a scientific calculation. She is irrational. It is a mystery to be lived, not a puzzle to be solved.”

“Why did you lock yourself in your little world? You are at odds even with your inner life, so how can you reconcile yourself with the life outside? Find a common language with her! Start from the core of yourself, make peace with yourself, then you will get along with everything around you. Transformation begins precisely with this: once you accept everything as it is, you will no longer be able to remain the same.”

“If you understood that when you fail, everything that society has imposed on you falls apart, any failure could be the beginning of the greatest success you can achieve in life.”

“You can only change yourself. And the moment you change, everything around you changes, because we are an integral part of the world. And the lighter you are, the more you have changed, the more important you become for the world - higher energy appears in you.”

“Knowledge is a real revolution. I'm not talking about the knowledge that they fill their heads with in universities. I'm talking about the knowledge you gain when you know yourself. Self-knowledge is our transformative power.”

“Throw away all the books, forget about any grades. Look at the world like children, because children do not yet know what exactly they see - they just look.”

“We don’t agree to anything less – we are only satisfied with the eternal. Nobody needs temporary things - on the contrary, they only increase hunger and thirst. It's like putting out a fire with oil: the oil makes the flame burn even hotter. The fleeting is like oil thrown into the ardor of desire: it only poisons the mind, strengthens its greed. Thirst is quenched only by the eternal. There is no other way."

“Happiness comes when you don’t think about it. This is the main property of happiness: it comes when you achieve something else.”

“When you are happy, you forget about everything else. If you cannot forget yourself, this is not happiness at all. Happiness means that you are no more. It only comes when you disappear."

“Nothing in the world is meaningless”

“Miracles happen, but they cannot be seen with the eye - they can only be felt by the soul.”

“Meditation, prayer is an opened door. Thanks to them, the former is darkness! - dissipates, and everything is illuminated with light.”

“Eternal, long, unceasing happiness can only be when you have realized that it is your essence, and no one can take it away.”

“Children are self-sufficient - that’s the secret of their beauty. They are their own light."

“God is not someone up there who can’t wait for you. God reveals himself to this world."

“Everything that comes out of your mouth is marked with your features, carries the aroma of your essence - this is an indicator. If anger emanates from you, it is a symptom of some internal illness. If hatred comes out, you have disunity. If love, and compassion, and light emanate from you, you are whole, you are healthy.”

“Let everything that comes from you come from the soul. Don’t think about your actions, it’s better to change your essence. The present is not what you are are you doing, but what kind of you are There is.»

“Life is energy. Only a sluggish, bloodless mind does not stray from the beaten path. He simply cannot afford it: it takes too much energy to get to the very edge of the abyss. But it is those who go astray who later become Buddhas.”

“Don't listen to what people say, look at what they are.”