It looks absurd and contradictory, because for you to be spontaneous many methods are needed to purify you, to make you innocent so that you can be spontaneous. Otherwise you cannot be spontaneous in anything.
OSHO, The Book of Secrets
Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness.
OSHO, A Sudden Clash of Thunder
Man thinks, and he has used thinking as a weapon for his struggle to survive. He could survive because he could think; otherwise he is more helpless than any animal, more weak than any animal. Physically, it was impossible for him to survive. He could survive because he could think. Because of thinking, he has become the master of the earth.
OSHO, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.
OSHO, The Way of the White Cloud
India is a longing, a thirst to attain truth -- the truth that resides in every heartbeat of ours, the truth that is lying asleep under the layer of our consciousness, the truth that is ours but yet forgotten. Its remembrance, its reclamation, is India.
OSHO, India My Love: A Spiritual Journey
Intimacy is a totally different dimension. It is allowing the other to come into you, to see you as you see yourself.
OSHO, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
In the modern world intimacy is disappearing. Even lovers are not intimate. Friendship is only a word now; it has disappeared. And the reason? The reason is that there is nothing to share. Who wants to show one's inner poverty?
OSHO, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
OSHO, Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
