Osho

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.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

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

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.