Osho Quotes

"Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing.
They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
If you feed, if you nourish attachment, love will be destroyed;
if you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself.
They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other." Osho

"To me the religious man is not one who is above nature,
but is the man who is totally natural, fully natural,
who has explored nature in all its dimensions,
who has not left anything unexplored.
Animals are prisoners; they have a certain limited area of being.
Man has the capacity, the intelligence, the freedom to explore.
And if you have explored nature totally, you have come home.
Nature is your home" Osho

"The whole idea that children are your possession is wrong.
They are born through you, but they do not belong to you.
You have a past, they have only a future.
They are not going to live according to you.
To live according to you will be almost equivalent to not living at all.
They have to live according to themselves — in freedom, in responsibility,
in danger, in challenge." Osho

"Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear & religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence."Osho

"You already are born with an urge to grow, with an urge to be somewhere else. A seed has to travel long to become flowers. It is a pilgrimage.
The urge is beautiful. It is given by nature itself.
But the society, up to now, has been very cunning; it turns, deviates, diverts your natural instincts into some social utility." Osho

"Don’t try to escape, don’t try to renounce, because if you renounce you are simply renouncing the opportunity." Osho

“Jealousy is Born out of comparison” Osho. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

Otherwise, if you drop comparing, jealousy disappears. Then you simply know you are you, and you are nobody else, and there is no need. It is good that you don’t compare yourself with trees, otherwise you will start feeling very jealous: why are you not green? It is better that you don’t compare with birds, with rivers, with mountains; otherwise you will suffer. You only compare with human beings, because you have been conditioned to compare only with human beings; you don’t compare with peacocks and with parrots. Otherwise, your jealousy would be more and more: you would be so burdened by jealousy that you would not be able to live at all.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either.

Everybody seems to be so happy — except yourself. You are continuously comparing. And the same is the case with the others, they are comparing too. Maybe they think the grass in your lawn is greener — it always looks greener from the distance — that you have a more beautiful wife…. and you may be jealous of him….

Everybody is jealous of everybody else. And out of jealousy we create such hell, and out of jealousy we become very mean.

An elderly farmer was moodily regarding the ravages of the flood. “Hiram!” yelled a neighbor, “your pigs were all washed down the creek.”

“How about Thompson’s pigs?” asked the farmer.

“They’re gone too.”

“And Larsen’s?”

“Yes.”

“Hum!” ejaculated the farmer, cheering up. “It ain’t as bad as I thought.”

If everybody is in misery, it feels good; if everybody is losing, it feels good. If everybody is happy and succeeding, it tastes very bitter.

But why does the idea of the other enter in your head in the first place? Again let me remind you: because you have not allowed your own juices to flow; you have not allowed your own blissfulness to grow, you have not allowed your own being to bloom. Hence you feel empty inside, and you look at everybody’s outside because only the outside can be seen.