Osho

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

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!

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.