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.

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

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

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

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

Self-command is the main discipline.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.