GREAT QUOTES
FROM
OSHO
I
am an avid reader, a great fan – and a disciple (in absentia) of the Great
Master, .. As I read / listen to his lectures – I find so many sentences and
phrases that speaks – as exquisite , quotable quotes – full of wisdom.
I
give below a few of them – mostly from his Alpha to Omega series. As I read them, I also tweeted them
on my twitter forum (@vvijayamohan).
I
give below those tweets (from 1st,Jan,2012 to 11th,Feb,2012) for the benefit of
the readers of this Blog. Enjoy them.
I
can assure you, that the Alpha to omega series is one of the best
interpretations of Patanjali I have ever
come across. Enjoy the Quotable Quotes here :
Ø Yoga
teaches you to trust yourself;….to become confident of yourself...
Ø Nobody
can start it
(yoga) for you. You have to start it for yourself. ..
Ø Yoga
is not just an idea, it is a practice,….it is a discipline, it is a science of
inner transformation...
Ø A
person who
loves from his heart is being responded to from everywhere. Love can
never be fruitless. It blooms...
Ø DOES
THE UNIVERSE LOVE
ME? It is a wrong question to ask. You should ask the other way
round, "Do you
love the universe?"
Ø Nobody
has ever been able to attain enlightenment through desire. That's why all Buddhas
insist : become
desireless.
Ø Meditate
if you want the answer which answers all questions. Stop meditating if you want
to go on asking
questions. Meditation is the answer.
Ø Ego
prevents you from love, ego prevents you from meditation, ego prevents you from
prayer, ego prevents you from God.
Ø The
hell that
you have heard about is not part of geography, it is not underneath earth. It
is just underneath your ego...
Ø Talk to a
child; he listens, he listens attentively...If
he does not listen then he is absolutely absent, but he is total.
Ø Talk
to a communist..a Catholic..a Hindu; he is not listening. While you are talking
he is preparing his answer, from his old, past, fixed ideas..
Ø If
you can change
yourself in this life, you can feel grateful. You can say.
"Enough, more than enough has happened"
Ø Those
who are trying to help you....They don't bother whether you want to be changed
or not.....They will change you in spite of you..
Ø One
who is not able to change himself cannot change anybody . .
Ø You
are a small part of the total. Whatsoever you do will not change the situation
-- but it will change
you...
Ø WHY
ARE THERE BEGGARS
AT ALL? Because there is no love in the human heart...
Ø Yoga
teaches you that the journey is alone. A Master can indicate the way, but you
have to follow it...
Ø Wherever
you pay your
attention, that becomes your reality. And, once it becomes a
reality, it becomes powerful to attract you and your attention ..
Ø Unless
a religion is creative, it is not a total
religion -- something is missing...
Ø Scientist
is concerned with the outside world, not with himself. The artist is concerned with
himself, not with the outside world...
Ø Looking
at a small flower he (Tennyson) said. "If I can understand you
root and all; I will understand the whole universe."
Ø Scientist's
whole work is of concentration. Science can become the first step towards yoga because
concentration is the 1st inner step of yoga
Ø Concentration
(Dharana) reveals to you things which are not
ordinarily revealed...
Ø You
are in a misery
because you have been missing yourself, you have not yet met yourself...
Ø Causes
are within; coincidences
without. That is the basic emphasis of yoga.
Ø Coincidences
are not causes: and the Western psychology is
looking into coincidences. ..
Ø Always
remember, once you miss to look in the right direction, you can go on infinitely --
you will never come back home.
Ø People
are always afraid of watching a madman because, suddenly, watching
a madman, you realize your own madness also..
Ø To
divide mad
people from non-mad people is not good. The distinction is only of
degrees. It is not of quality: it is only of quantity..
Ø Once
you have a glimpse
of your nature, who you are, the whole world changes. Then you can
live in the world, and the world will not distract you.
Ø Yoga
is a science to divide that which is not you and that which is you.
Ø Yoga
is the science of stilling what has to be stilled and alerting what can be
alerted.
Ø When
the inner talk stops, infinite silence. In that infinite silence,
everything is answered, solved.
Ø That's
what meditation is all about: to drop the questions, to drop the inner
chattering.
Ø When
you are real,
all problems disappear. When you are unreal, a thousand and one problems arise.
Ø if
you are free
as an obsession, in your freedom is bondage; if you are a slave with
total acceptance, in your bondage is freedom.
Ø Bondage
is something which you have to do as an obsession, as a compulsion: you never
wanted to do it and you have to do it.
Ø Your
whole prayer is,"God, let me be enlightened, but not right now". That is
your prayer."Let me be awakened, but wait a little more."
Ø The
whole is a cosmic play; it is beautiful....a tremendous celebration.... You are
suffering because you are not part of it.
Ø Why
are you suffering?
Because you are. To be is to suffer; not to be is not to suffer. The ego suffers.
The whole...is beautiful.
Ø Either
you fight others; or you fight you. In both cases, it is the Ego, which is fighting. When
all fighting stops, Ego Drops.
Ø "If
you like to drop
the ego you cannot drop it, because ..... Who is this who is saying,
'I would like to drop?' This is the ego.
Ø The
ego can exist only when you have some private goal against the whole.
Ø With
no condemnation of the sinner, with no appreciation of the saint, you become
choiceless. In that choicelessness you will be...total.
Ø Lao Tzu
says again and again, "There was a time in the past there were no saints
-- because there were no sinners."
Ø Self-consciousness is a disease, and self-awareness
is health.
Ø A
woman has a different
world; a man has a different world. Their chemicals differ...
Ø A
poor man has a different
world, and a rich man has a different world. Their chemicals differ...
Ø When
you are hungry the world looks different. When you are satisfied, satiated, the
world looks
different. ..
Ø All
choice is of the extreme.... Whenever you say, "This is beautiful,"
you have already condemned something as ugly. ..
Ø Woman has
perfect qualities to become a disciple. Surrender is easy for her. It is
natural, part of the feminine being.
Ø Remain
faithful to
yourself -- that is the only faith that is needed -- and everything
will be good...
Ø If
the whole world can laugh loudly, wars will disappear, because
wars are managed by serious people...
Ø Cry
and weep and laugh, and let these be your prayers. temple...church… don't
bother about the authorized version of the prayer. There is none ..
Ø Religious
people all over the world have been teaching people to be very serious-long
faces. This is illness..Make laughter your prayer..
Ø The
flame of awareness
should not be lost....live in the market or live in the monastery -- you will
never be a loser in life.
Ø A
man of
awareness never repents.....because the more awareness goes deep, he
can stop a process even before it has begun.-.
Ø if
YOU are responsible,
then there is hope; you can do something. If others are responsible then there
is no hope.
Ø When
you are filled with heaven within, the world reflects it. When you
are filled with hell, the world can't help, it reflects it. ..
Ø To
be miserable or to be happy -- it is up to you. Nobody else has anything to do with
it. The world will remain the same.
Ø If life is
miserable, you must have started the chain. If
everybody is against you, you must have started the chain...
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