Osho,Why is love so painful? “Love is painful because it transforms. Love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind...
What is needed is not something in which you can forget your loneliness. What is needed is that you become aware of your aloneness, which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.
"Misery needs company and people are slaves to it. To be blissful means to seek and search for something inside you and not to imitate the crowd."
“In India, we have pictured Shiva as Ardhanarishwar: half-man, half-woman.” “That is the only symbol of its type all over the world. Shiva – half is man, half is woman; half Shiva and half Parvati, his consort. Half the body is of man and half of woman: Ardhanarishwar, half-man, half-woman. That is the symbol. Lovers...
The Body Is Only a Temple: The Deity Is Within “Health to Pythagoras has two aspects to it. One is the physical, the other is the spiritual. The body is your temple – don’t neglect it. Your foolish, stupid ascetics have been telling you to neglect it – not only to neglect but to destroy...
Osho, What is jealousy and why does it hurt so much? “Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. “Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. “Compare,...
"No statue will make you a slave. On the contrary, the statue makes you a master craftsman, it makes you a creator, an artist. There is no conflict. The real test for love is with human beings." Osho
"You can be creative only if you are an individual, you cannot create as a part of the mob psychology." Osho
"Our culture, our education, our religion -- they all teach us to be hypocrites in such subtle ways that unless you go deep in search, you will never find out what you have been doing." Osho
