Osho, born Rajneesh, was an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher who blended ancient wisdom with modern insight. He founded a global following through dynamic meditation, Zorba-like joy, and uncompromising authenticity. Osho’s writings and dialogues encourage inner transformation through awareness, celebration, and freedom from dogma. Despite controversy, his emphasis on living with total presence and creativity resonates globally. His legacy guides seekers toward courage, honesty, and deep self-understanding.
"Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the mind will have less a grip on you."
"Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?-because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential."
"If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others."
"If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan."
"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. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind."
"We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings " but the painter is one."
"Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available."
"Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being."
"You are the way and you are the goal, and there is no distance between you and the goal. You are the seeker and you are the sought; there is no distance between the seeker and the sought. You are the worshipper and you are the worshipped. You are the disciple and you are the master. You are the means and you are the end: this is the great way."
"I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed " I am not my mind. he found that there is no atman, no soul, because this atma is nothing but your mental information " just doctrines, words, philosophies."