Looking for great life changing advise…? Read these mind-blowing Osho quotes to change your perspective toward life, relationship, and spirituality.
Do you know Osho?
Before digging into this biggest inspiration, let’s have a look at who was Osho? And how he becomes such a rebellious spiritual teacher?
Rajneesh was born in Madhya Pradesh, India in 1931, also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho.
He was popular for his controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
Due to rich in analytical mind and logical thoughts, he broke thousands of old social myths and spiritual beliefs of people.
His lots of controversial speech banned him to enter in many countries.
This long-bearded man was the eldest son of Babulal Jain and Saraswati Jain. They were cloth merchants and followers of Jainism.
Since childhood, Osho was a brilliant student in his school and got admission to Hitkarini College. But due to his dispute with professors on subjective content, he soon transferred to DNJ College, Jabalpur.
After his dispute over there also, he started working for the newspaper as part-time where he joined a public speaking platform.
His speech becomes famous because of his logical thoughts and philosophy. Then he did MA in Philosophy and started working as a professor. But there also he expelled.
After enlightenment, he started presented dynamic meditation in 1970. His controversial speech on many platforms made people against in his own country also.
His bad image created by media made him popular negatively which made him expelled from many countries. Then he settled in Pune ashram and worked in his Osho International Foundation Till death in 1990.
His main focus was always on meditation and mindfulness. Later, people made him God and started praising him like anything.
His followers were deeply inspired by him and think he has come to visit earth.
Let’s have a look at Osho’s quotes and sayings about life, love, relationship, friendship, religion, and joy that teaches us many life lessons.
Osho Quotes and Sayings On Life, and Love
Read his inspiring thoughts to enlighten your life, love, relationship, mindset, and spiritual path.
“Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”
“When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.”
“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.”
The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
“Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.”
“Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.”
“A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.”
“My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”
“Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.”
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
“Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”
“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.”
“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
“A man who is 100% sane is dead.”
“The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.”
“Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.”
“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.”
“The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind.”
“It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.”
“The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.”
“In the space of no-mind, truth descends like a light.”
The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe. “What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.”
“It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.”
“Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.”
“And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, ‘A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.”
“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.”
“Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”
“Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.”
“Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, ‘It is because of me.’ When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, ‘Okay, this is me, this is because of me.”
“Never interfere in anybody’s life and don’t allow anybody to interfere in your life.”
“Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.”
“Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.”
“Crowds create illusions.”
“If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.”
“Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, ‘Be happy! Look, I have done it.’ And immediately the contact is lost.”
“Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.”
“Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!”
“Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others, in the end, becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others, in the end, reaches to the heights of happiness.”
“Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.”
“Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.”
“When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.”
“And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about.”
“If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.”
“Whenever a situation arises that creates fear, there are two alternatives—either you fight or you take flight.”
“If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love…”
“The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.”
“A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.”
“If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember.”
“Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.”
“Tension means you want to be something else that you are not.”
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.”
“A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.”
“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.”
“Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.”
“Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.”
“There is a great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.”
“Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.”
“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.”
“When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love – that is the meaning of love.”
“Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”
“Life begins where fear ends.”
“Love a woman as a goddess, then love becomes worship.”
“You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.”
“They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
“Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage everything misfires.”
“Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice, and follow it.”
“You need power only to do something harmful. otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.”
“In love the other is important; in lust you are important.”
“The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.”
“Don’t analyze, celebrate it.”
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