Osho

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

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

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.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.