Quotable Quotes of OSHO

To be humble is to be on the first leg of the journey to purity. The humble has yet to be on the first leg of the journey to purity. The humble has yet to be pure. He is on the way to it. One cannot be pure without being humble, because there is no greater impurity than ego".


"We have to look at Krishna in two different ways, and then we can look at ourselves the same way. We exist at two levels - one at the level of waves and another at the level of the ocean. As waves we are individual human beings and as the ocean we are the supreme being".


"The power of our unconscious mind is enormous; what we cannot do in our conscious state we can do with the help of the unconscious mind more sensible than the conscious."


"Let someone dance and let him bring all his energy to it, and soon he will find there is some one inside him who is not dancing, who is utterly steady and still. That is his axle, his centre. That which is dancing is his circumference, his body and he himself is the centre."


'PHILOSOPHY is a disease, and not an ordinary one either. It’s not a common cold. It is cancer- Cancer of the soul. Once a person is lost in the jungle of philosophy he becomes more and more entangled in words, concepts, abstractions and there is no end to it. One can go on and on for lives together.'


'TRUTH happens in a state of not knowing, truth happens in innocence. Truth happens where there are no clouds of thoughts moving in your consciousness, when sky is absolutely clear, when there is no abstraction, when you have no idea and God is or God is not. When you don't believe in no-God, when you are simply in a state of not knowing. You don't claim any knowledge, that non-claiming consciousness begins to open up. All knowledge burdens and closes you.'

WISE SAYINGS

"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." -- Vaclav Havel

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now -- when?" -- Hillel

"Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." -- Tennyson

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." -- Zen proverb

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." -- Victor Frankl

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Unknown

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." -- Tennyson

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -- Carl Jung

"The years teach much that the days never know." -- Emerson

"If you bring forth what is within you, it will heal you. And if you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you." (from the Gospel of St. Thomas)

"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know." -- William Shakespeare

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." -- Albert Einstein

"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer

"The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it." -- Quote found on the wall of a recreation center office in Berkeley, California

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dave Gardner

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Talmud

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. " -- Helen Keller

Mahatma Gandhi

» Where there is love there is life.

» Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

» It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

» As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

» Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

» Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

» I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

» Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

» I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

» Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

» It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

» One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

» The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

» Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

» You must be the change you want to see in the world.

» You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

William Shakespeare

» Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

» Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

» The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

» ...the honour of a maid is her name; andno legacy is so rich as honesty.

» If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

» There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

» Action is eloquence.

» Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

» God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

» How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

Mark Twain

» A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

» Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

» Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

» Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

» Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

» Better a broken promise than none at all.

» All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

» All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

» All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

» Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

» Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The further back you look, the further forward you can see.

--Winston Churchill

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If you don't ask, you don't get.

--Mahatma Gandhi

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

--Swami Vivekananda