Osho

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.