120+ Inspirational Quotes on Life, Love, Mind & Spirituality By Osho
Last updated on March 14th, 2024 at 01:55 pm
Meet Rajneesh, better known as Osho, the spiritual guru who turned heads worldwide with his captivating philosophy and mysticism. Born as Chandra Mohan Jain in Madhya Pradesh, India, Osho had a spiritual awakening at the tender age of 21 – the kind that propels you on an epic journey of self-discovery.
Osho’s teachings? They’re like a buffet of profound topics, from love, mind, death, spirituality, and human consciousness. But here’s the twist – he was no conformist. He boldly challenged the norm, taking on conventional beliefs, religious rituals, and societal norms. His belief was that these norms suffocated the flames of love, peace, creativity, and mindfulness that should be thriving in our lives.
Read through Osho’s wisdom that reflects through this collection of his thoughtful quotes. These nuggets give you a peek into his unique take on life, spirituality, and being human. And guess what? They’re still inspiring folks all around the world!
Navigating Life with Osho’s Illuminating Quotes
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. ~ Osho
There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you. ~ Osho
Life has to be a joy, a dance, a celebration. And when death comes, it has to be welcomed with silence, with serenity. This is a way to kill death itself. ~ Osho
Be – don’t try to become. ~ Osho
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. ~ Osho
You are living in one of the most alive times ever. ~ Osho
Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever. ~ Osho
There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are. ~ Osho
Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others. ~ Osho
You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice. ~ Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious. ~ Osho
Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. ~ Osho
If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous. ~ Osho
Wherever you will look, you will only find human beings. Nowhere will you find humanity. ~ Osho
There is only one thing that can make you an emperor and that is your own being. Just find it. ~ Osho
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. ~ Osho
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. ~ Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness. ~ Osho
Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life. ~ Osho
Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. ~ Osho
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home. ~ Osho
Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated. ~ Osho
Existence cannot go wrong. If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong. ~ Osho
Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all. ~ Osho
Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!! ~ Osho
Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is celebrating, joyous. ~ Osho
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest! ~ Osho
Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny. ~ Osho
Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy. ~ Osho
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. ~ Osho
Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life. ~ Osho
Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic, knowledge is information, and knowing is transformation. ~ Osho
The first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on. ~ Osho
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing. ~ Osho
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you. ~ Osho
Don’t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read, there is no need to go back again and again. ~ Osho
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears. ~ Osho
You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
The Zen saying is: Whenever such belly laughter happens – laughter like Bodhidharma’s – white lotuses start showering from the sky, from nowhere. ~ Osho
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life. ~ Osho
You cannot destroy inner emptiness. It is your very being. You can cover it with things, but sooner or later you will have to encounter it. And it is better if you encounter it sooner. ~ Osho
Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before. ~ Osho
The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. ~ Osho
The still point… There is a point within you where nothing ever moves – no movement from or to, no stirring, no sound created by any instrument. Nobody is there, just stillness, but that stillness is the dance and that stillness is the music. ~ Osho
The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment. ~ Osho
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfil, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally–you are here meaningfully. ~ Osho
Unveiling ‘Love’ Through Osho’s Quotes
To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be. ~ Osho
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. ~ Osho
Love need two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. ~ Osho
Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right. ~ Osho
Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving. ~ Osho
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. ~ Osho
Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. ~ Osho
If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great. ~ Osho
Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again. ~ Osho
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. ~ Osho
If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion. ~ Osho
Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. ~ Osho
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible. ~ Osho
The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights. ~ Osho
The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything. ~ Osho
If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world. ~ Osho
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. ~ Osho
Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the centre, fear always comes from the periphery. ~ Osho
Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible. ~ Osho
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. ~ Osho
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing. ~ Osho
Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself. ~ Osho
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue. ~ Osho
The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love. The man who has not developed the capacity to love lives in a private hell of his own. A man who is filled with love is in heaven. ~ Osho
Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual. ~ Osho
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. ~ Osho
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. ~ Osho
Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms, love is a mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. ~ Osho
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. ~ Osho
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. ~ Osho
Mastering the Mind’s Maze With Osho Quotes
The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master. ~ Osho
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. ~ Osho
Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness. ~ Osho
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. ~ Osho
Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is. ~ Osho
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want! ~ Osho
Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing. ~ Osho
Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs. ~ Osho
Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. ~ Osho
Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health. ~ Osho
Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled. ~ Osho
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. ~ Osho
You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. ~ Osho
Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer. ~ Osho
If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier. ~ Osho
In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence. ~ Osho
The moment you see that whatsoever you are in your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances. ~ Osho
The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simple. ~ Osho
Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you. ~ Osho
If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-mind. The mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond. ~ Osho
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience. ~ Osho
Rediscovering Your Divine Self With These Spiritual Quotes By Osho
Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle. ~ Osho
The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious. ~ Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. ~ Osho
Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you. ~ Osho
Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. ~ Osho
A truth cannot be read in scripture. Truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being. ~ Osho
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence. ~ Osho
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously… Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul. ~ Osho
If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind. ~ Osho
Desire is beautiful, there is nothing wrong with it, only free it from objects. Freedom from objects and desire is divine. ~ Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game. ~ Osho
If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious. ~ Osho
If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread. ~ Osho
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock. ~ Osho
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. ~ Osho
The moment you become innocent, you have found a direct line to the divine. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the heartbeat of the universe. ~ Osho
Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with that which is is the truth. ~ Osho
I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master. ~ Osho
I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all. ~ Osho
Don’t be so short of trust, and don’t be in a hurry. If I say something, wait, search, and you will find the way. And when you find the way, you also find that trust is arising in you. ~ Osho
The will to wholeness is inherent in everything, but only in man has it become conscious. Therefore man lives in tension, and only when this longing is fulfilled is his negative state of tension erased. ~ Osho
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy. ~ Osho
Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. ~ Osho