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100+ Osho Quotes And Life Story

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Osho, who was also known as Rajneesh, was a spiritual, motivational speaker and Indian guru. He was widely popular for preaching love, meditation, peace, and mindfulness. His followers claim that even after his death, words from Osho resonate with them forever.

His teachings, wisdom, and interpretations towards love, sadness, happiness, and other emotions have a significant impact on the lives of millions of people from all over the world. He traveled to numerous places worldwide, speaking about the methods to live a fulfilling life.

While we as humans run after our goals to become rich and attain prosperity, Osho spread the idea of embracing inner peace and happiness instead of materialistic things. To remember his meaningful teachings, we have collected Osho quotes on love and happiness that will inspire us to seek joy from within.

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.
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.
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Life begins where fear ends.
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Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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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.
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
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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.
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Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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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.
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The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.
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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.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
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Awareness functions almost like magic.
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If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
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When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
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You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
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My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
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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.
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Osho Quotes On Happiness

Chandra Mohan Jain, known as Osho, was an Indian public speaker and widely preached as a scholar, thinker, philosopher, who has broken several social myths. A spiritual rebellious guru whose deep eyes, strong pitched voice, and a strong personality has become his identity among the followers. His teachings show the divine path of finding peace and truth by looking inwards into one’s self.

Osho left his otherworldly wisdom, love, guidance, and meaningful teachings as his legacy followed even after 30 years of his death. Life is too short to appreciate such legendary thinkers who help people to deal with a chaotic lifestyle and heal with mindfulness in most difficult times.

Here you can check out the Osho Quotes on Peace and Life that will give an idea about his insights on life and its patterns and the hope to live it while enjoying inner peace.

 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?
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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.
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It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.
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Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
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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.
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Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
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Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
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One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
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Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
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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.
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If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
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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.
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Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life.
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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.
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I also 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. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force.
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Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
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My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.
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Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
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I live my life based on two 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.
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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.
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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
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No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.
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You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.
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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.
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Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
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Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
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Osho Quotes On Life

Osho, an Indian Godman, is well-renowned as Acharya Rajneesh and by other several names has received lots of controversies for his ideology and teachings during his lifetime. While on the other hand, he has gained popularity, recognition, and respect from his followers for his knowledge and wisdom that helped several people to live a peaceful life.

Some of his opinions might look far-fetched, especially to those who listen to him for the first time. Also, there is so much to learn and practice from his ideas that encourage people to follow the positive attitude towards life. He left an inspiring legacy for people who strive to improve their lives in the best possible way.

In the remembrance of the greatest guru, we have curated some of the Inspirational Osho Quotes that will lay us a map to reach the destination of achieving uttermost happiness in life.

 No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
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Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
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You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
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A woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.
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Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
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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.
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
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If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.
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If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.
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A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
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Love is a by-product of meditation.
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Don’t be so short of trust, and don’t be in a hurry. If I say something, wait, search, and you will find the way.
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Love needs immense consciousness. Love is a meeting of two souls, and lust is the meeting of two bodies. Lust is animal; love is divine. But unless you know that you are a soul, you cannot understand what love is.
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
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Become alert. Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.
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They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
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Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
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Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
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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. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
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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.
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Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
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It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
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Love is a roseflower in your being, but prepare your being. Dispel the darkness and the unconsciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come of its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect.
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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
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I teach you to be more conscious. And love will come as you become more conscious: it is a guest that comes, that comes inevitably to those who are ready and prepared to receive it.
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To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.
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Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.
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Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
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Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.
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We hope to collect quotes from an Indian spiritual master, Osho will enlighten you with positivity and expect to live life to its fullest.

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