90 Osho Quotes for wisdom and enlightenment

Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was a spiritual teacher, philosopher and guru known for his provocative and thought-provoking views on life, love, and spirituality. Acharya Rajneesh’s wisdom continue to inspire and enlighten people from all walks of life. In this blog post, we will explore some of his most profound Osho quotes.

Osho Quotes

1. “Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.” ~ Osho

2. “Simplicity means to be just yourself, whoever you are, in tremendous acceptance, with no goal, with no ideal. All ideals are crap.” ~ Osho

3. “Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.” ~ Osho

4. “The one you are looking for is you.” ~ Osho

5. “The river flows by itself – allow it to flow.” ~ Osho

6. “A little foolishness enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.” ~ Osho
7. “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.” ~ Osho
8. “The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience.” ~ Osho
9. “If you suffer, it is because of you. If you feel blissful, it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible, only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.” ~ Osho
10. “Don’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.” ~ Osho

Osho Quotes on Life

11. “Think of life as dance, as movement, and become more and more in tune with this moving existence.” ~ Osho
12. “Life is a balance between rest and movement.” ~ Osho
13. “This very moment is the only real existential time; there is nowhere else.” ~ Osho
14. “Unless you die, you cannot hold the infinite within you. So learn to die.” ~ Osho
15. “One has to be spontaneous. One has to live moment to moment, neither thinking of the past, nor thinking of the future, nor clinging to the present.” ~ Osho
16. “The more alive you are, the less repetitive. Only a dead man can be consistent. Living is inconsistency; life is freedom. Freedom cannot be consistent.” ~ Osho
17. “Don’t try to change others; just change yourself, and life changes.” ~ Osho
18. “My approach to life is that whatsoever you do, change cannot be stopped. So the best way is to start loving this change, understanding this change. And it is a beautiful dance once you are not afraid of it. It is aliveness. And because something new is happening each moment life remains an adventure, a constant exploration.” ~ Osho
19. “Never become a believer, never become a follower, never become a part of any organization, never become a part of any religion, never become a part of any nation. Remain authentically true to yourself.” ~ Osho
20. “The man of understanding dies every moment to the past and is reborn again to the future. His present is always a transformation, a rebirth, a resurrection. It is not a question of courage at all, that is the first thing to be understood. It is a question of clarity, of being clear about what is what.” ~ Osho

Quotes by Osho

21. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.” ~ Osho
22. “Love arises out of deep respect and gratitude, seeing your beauty and grandeur, seeing your unconditional love which asks nothing in response, not even love.” ~ Osho
23. “You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.” ~ Osho
24. “Love relates, but it is not a relationship. Relationship is a dead thing, a closed thing. Love is a flowing.” ~ Osho
25. “One who forgives is forgiven.” ~ Osho
26. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” ~ Osho
27. “If you are serious, then you cannot flow. Then you are frozen inside; then you become just a dead stone.” ~ Osho
28. “Never be in a hurry, because all that is beautiful and great takes time.” ~ Osho
29. “You are whole; there is no need of anybody else to complete you.” ~ Osho
30. “Once you give up expectations, you have learned to live.” ~ Osho

Osho Quotes on Love

31. “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ~ Osho
32. “The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.” ~ Osho
33. “If you love a person, give them infinite space.” ~ Osho
34. “Unless you are ready to commit, you never grow.” ~ Osho
35. “Courage is a love affair with the unknown.” ~ Osho
36. “Love should not have an address; it should be simply a radiation of your being.” ~ Osho
37. “Falling 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.” ~ Osho
38. “In love the other is important; in lust you are important.” ~ Osho
39. “If everyone starts giving love instead of talking about love. This very earth can become a paradise.” ~ Osho
40. “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” ~ Osho

Osho Quotes on Happiness and Gratitude

41. “It is your decision to be happy or to be unhappy.” ~ Osho
42. “If you can remain that alert, nobody will ever be able to manipulate you; you will remain free.” ~ Osho
43. “Come out of the future! It is your dream. You are not supposed to go anywhere. Be happy wherever you are.” ~ Osho
44. “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” ~ Osho
45. “If you start listening to the body, listening to the nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and more happy.” ~ Osho
46. “Drop 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.” ~ Osho
47. “Learn to be in the present. Withdraw your energy from the past. Don’t waste your time in memories; what is gone is gone — say goodbye to it and close the chapter.” ~ Osho
48. “Unlearn all that you have learned up to now. Forget your past, disconnect yourself, don’t look back. Look in the moment, in the present, and be in a totally relaxed state, available.” ~ Osho
49. “All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.” ~ Osho
50. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.” ~ Osho

Best Osho Quotes

51. “Just be there, available, open, receptive, and you will be flooded with truth, with light and that light, that truth, will liberate you, will make you what you are supposed to be, what you intrinsically need to be. Your real destiny will be fulfilled.” ~ Osho
52. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering.” ~ Osho
53. “The misery comes and goes, clouds gather and disperse — it has nothing to do with me. Before it used to affect me, now it does not affect me at all. I am just a mirror, I only reflect. If it is sunny I reflect it: if it is cloudy I reflect it.” ~ Osho
54. “Life begins where fear ends.” ~ Osho
55. “Ask for happiness and you will never get it. You will suffer frustration. Why? Because there is only one way to be happy, and that is to be happy here.” ~ Osho
56. “Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature.” ~ Osho
57. “Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things.” ~ Osho
58. “Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.” ~ Osho
59. “Your blissfulness is not something that comes from outside, it springs from within you.” ~ Osho
60. “Once one starts accepting and respecting oneself, life starts changing, joy arises.” ~ Osho

Osho Quotes on Mind

61. “The mind is a beautiful servant, but a dangerous master.” ~ Osho
62. “The mind is a dead thing and to get out of the mind is to get into the open and under the sky and under the stars, in the rains, in the winds. And then the vastness is available to you — even the sky is not the limit.” ~ Osho
63. “Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time – time disappears.” ~ Osho
64. “The mind wants things not to change, and that’s how the mind and life are in conflict.” ~ Osho
65. “No-mind is the search of meditation. And from no-mind blossom flowers of unselfishness, of love, of compassion, of sharing.” ~ Osho
66. “Once a man is in a state of no-mind, nothing can distract him from his being.” ~ Osho
67. “There is no power bigger than the power of no-mind. No harm can be done to such a person. No attachment, no greed, no jealousy, no anger… Nothing can arise in him. No-mind is an absolutely pure sky without any clouds.” ~ Osho
68. “Meditation is fire — it burns your thoughts, your desires, your memories; it burns the past and the future. It burns your mind and the ego. It takes away all that you think that you are. It is a death and a rebirth, a crucifixion and a resurrection. You are born anew. You lose your own identity totally, and you attain to a new vision of life.” ~ Osho
69. “The more you watch [your mind], the bigger is the distance. The bigger the distance, the less energy your thoughts are getting from you.” ~ Osho
70. “No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.” ~ Osho

Osho Quotes

71. “You are not here to fulfill anybody’s expectations and nobody else is here to fulfill your expectations. Never become a victim of others’ expectations and don’t make anybody a victim of your expectations.” ~ Osho
72. “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.” ~ Osho
73. “The real question is not whether life exists after death, the real question is whether you are alive before death.” ~ Osho
74. “Laughter is my message. I do not ask you to do prayer. I ask you to find moments, situations, in which you can laugh wholeheartedly. Your laughter will open a thousand and one roses within you.” ~ Osho
75. “Just be spontaneous. Don’t ask how. Try it. Without knowing, innocently, respond to a situation and you will learn out of it the great experience of let-go. And you will rejoice because you have attained your freedom from all kinds of fears.” ~ Osho
76. “You are a guest. Leave this earth a little more beautiful, a little more human, a little more lovable, a little more fragrant.” ~ Osho
77. “A miracle happens, the moment you are silent, the moment you are open, not trying to prove something.” ~ Osho
78. “Life is neither misery nor bliss. Life is an empty canvas, and one has to be very artistic about it.” ~ Osho
79. “A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.” ~ Osho
80. “That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.” ~ Osho

Inspiring Osho Quotes

81. “To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.” ~ Osho
82. “Love is the goal, life is the journey.” ~ Osho
83. “There is everything to laugh and there is nothing to fear. Laughter has to be our sword to cut all these heads who have been torturing humanity for centuries.” ~ Osho
84. “Nobody bothers to give, everybody wants to get. And when everybody is after getting, nobody gets it. And everybody feels at a loss, empty, tense.” ~ Osho
85. “When the mind is with thoughts, the lake is with ripples; when the mind is without thoughts, the lake is without ripples.” ~ Osho
86. “The mind wants things to be static, because only that which is unchanging can be controlled; that which remains the same can be controlled because you will be in the know about it.” ~ Osho
87. “Mind is not something in particular, it is the whole accumulation, all the junk, the whole heap, of your dead past.” ~ Osho
88. “The whole existence lives in the present except you, except human mind. And it is only human mind that suffers.” ~ Osho
89. “The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind.” ~ Osho
90. “Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.” ~ Osho

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