Osho

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

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.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The dice of God are always loaded.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.