70 Incredible Osho Quotes Everyone Should Commit to Memory

Have you heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?

You might not recognise his full name, but you’ve definitely heard his spiritual name “Osho.” Born in India in 1931, Osho was renowned for his eclectic teachings that combined Eastern mysticism with sexual freedom and individual devotion.

Osho’s philosophies have been inspiring generations of free thinkers, so it’s no surprise that there are so many famous Osho quotes.

Keep reading below for a roundup of the very best Osho quotes on life, love, happiness, and much more!

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Inspirational Quotes by Osho

1. “Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.”

2. “If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.”

3. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny–he has something to fulfil, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally—you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

4. “Existence cannot go wrong. If it does not fulfil our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.”

5. “When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

6. “Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.”

7. “Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take the wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.”

8. “Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.”

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

10. “Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!”

11. “Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

12. “Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.”

13. “Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”

14. “Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. This is how you will be growing.”

15. “Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

16. “The past is no more, and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.”

17. “It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.”

18. “Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”

Insightful Osho Quotes on Life

19. “That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.”

20. “Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.”

21. “The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.”

22. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

23. “Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.”

24. “The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.”

25. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

26. “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

28. “You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.”

29. “Many people have come and left, and it has always been good because they emptied some space for better people.”

30. “One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you.”

31. “Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.”

32. “When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.”

33. “What is discipline? Discipline means creating order within you. As you are, you are chaos.”

34. “Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being of no mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.”

35. “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.”

36. “Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.”

Memorable Osho Life Quotes

37. “The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.”

38. “The way of love is the way of no expectation. Love exists only when there is total acceptance and no desire to change anything.”

39. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

40. “A comfortable, convenient life is not the real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.”

41. “Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.”

42. “The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.”

43. “People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.”

44. “A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.”

45. “I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it were perfect it would have been dead.”

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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love — now you are love.

47. “If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.”

48. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

49. “Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.”

50. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”

51. “Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.”

52. “Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.”

53. “Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.”

54. “Don’t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read, there is no need to go back again and again.”

55. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

Short Osho Quotes

56. “Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”

57. “There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.”

58. “Real education will be to bring out what is in you.”

59. “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”

60. “The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.”

61. “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”

62. “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”

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Life begins where fear ends.

64. “Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.”

65. “Love is the goal, life is the journey.”

66. “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”

67. “Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

68. “Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”

69. “Be — don’t try to become.”

70. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

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