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.

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.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.