60 Famous quotes and sayings by Osho. Here are the best Osho quotes that you can read to learn more about Osho's ideas and beliefs that will inspire you. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho, is an Indian public speaker, godman, religious movement leader, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. May these inspirational Osho quotes give you the encouragement that you need on whatever your purpose in life. Share these famous Osho quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. - Osho
2. Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful. - Osho
3. All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. - Osho
4. Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. - Osho
5. A man who is 100% sane is dead. - Osho
6. Be realistic: Plan for a miracle. - Osho
7. Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being. - Osho
8. Love is the goal, life is the journey. - Osho
9. Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. - Osho
10. 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
11. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. - Osho
12. Each 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. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. - Osho
13. Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. - Osho
14. There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. - Osho
15. Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love. - Osho
16. 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. - Osho
17. 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
18. To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. - Osho
19. Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing. - Osho
20. If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you. - Osho
21. Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand, just relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. - Osho
22. 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
23. A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. - Osho
24. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. - Osho
25. There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal. Belief is social. - Osho
26. 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
27. Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. - Osho
28. Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. - Osho
29. You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced... - Osho
30. You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough. - Osho
31. Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing. - Osho
32. 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
33. I 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. - Osho
34. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion. - Osho
35. Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance. - Osho
36. Life 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. - Osho
37. The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. - Osho
38. Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. - Osho
39. No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself. - Osho
40. The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue. - Osho
41. Never interfere in anybody´s life and don´t allow anybody to interfere in your life. - Osho
42. Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. - Osho
43. Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding. - Osho
44. You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are. - Osho
45. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory. - Osho
46. A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. - Osho
47. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. - Osho
48. A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. - Osho
49. Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special. - Osho
50. 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
51. Millions 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. - Osho
52. When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. - Osho
53. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart. - Osho
54. Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser. - Osho
55. One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. - Osho
56. Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers. - Osho
57. Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive? - Osho
58. Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. - Osho
59. 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
60. Joy is spiritual. It is different, totally different from pleasure or happiness. It has nothing to do with the outside, with the other, it is an inner phenomenon. - Osho
1. Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. - Osho
2. Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful. - Osho
3. All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. - Osho
4. Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. - Osho
5. A man who is 100% sane is dead. - Osho
6. Be realistic: Plan for a miracle. - Osho
7. Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being. - Osho
8. Love is the goal, life is the journey. - Osho
9. Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. - Osho
10. 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
11. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. - Osho
12. Each 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. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. - Osho
13. Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. - Osho
14. There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself. - Osho
15. Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love. - Osho
16. 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. - Osho
17. 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
18. To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. - Osho
19. Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing. - Osho
20. If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you. - Osho
21. Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand, just relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. - Osho
22. 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
23. A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. - Osho
24. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. - Osho
25. There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal. Belief is social. - Osho
26. 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
27. Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. - Osho
28. Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. - Osho
29. You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced... - Osho
30. You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough. - Osho
31. Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing. - Osho
32. 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
33. I 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. - Osho
34. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion. - Osho
35. Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance. - Osho
36. Life 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. - Osho
37. The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. - Osho
38. Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. - Osho
39. No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself. - Osho
40. The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue. - Osho
41. Never interfere in anybody´s life and don´t allow anybody to interfere in your life. - Osho
42. Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. - Osho
43. Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding. - Osho
44. You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are. - Osho
45. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory. - Osho
46. A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. - Osho
47. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. - Osho
48. A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. - Osho
49. Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special. - Osho
50. 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
51. Millions 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. - Osho
52. When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. - Osho
53. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart. - Osho
54. Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser. - Osho
55. One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. - Osho
56. Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers. - Osho
57. Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive? - Osho
58. Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. - Osho
59. 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
60. Joy is spiritual. It is different, totally different from pleasure or happiness. It has nothing to do with the outside, with the other, it is an inner phenomenon. - Osho