Osho

Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you—not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be.

If you are clean inside, having no wounds of inferiority, then who cares what people expect of you? You have never fulfilled anybody’s expectations. You have been simply living your life according to your own insight, intuition, intelligence.

Drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.

Live dangerously, and when I say ‘Live dangerously,’ I mean live according to your own self, whatever the cost. Whatever is at stake, live according to your own consciousness, according to your own heart and feeling.

Zarathustra is beautiful, Buddha is beautiful, Lao Tzu is beautiful, Jesus is beautiful--but they are no longer applicable. They lived their lives, they flowered beautifully. Learn through them but don’t be a stupid follower.

If we want to change the society, we have to change the individual.

When the potential becomes the actual, only then is man fulfilled.

And there is nowhere to stop. In life there is no full stop, not even a semicolon —just small commas. Just for a while you can rest, but the rest is just to gather energy to go forward, to go upward.

When you are total, it is good; and when you are divided, it is evil. Divided you suffer; united, you dance, you sing, you celebrate.

Don’t avoid the extremes, and don’t choose any one extreme.

Your effort to be in the middle, and to be in the middle forever and always, is creating unnecessary anxiety for you. In fact, a desire to be in the middle forever is another extreme—the worst kind of extreme, b/c it is the impossible kind. It cannot be fulfilled. Just think of an old-fashioned clock: If you hold the pendulum exactly in the middle, the clock will stop. The clock works only b/c the pendulum goes on moving from the left to the right, from the right to the left. Yes, each time it passes thru the middle, and there is a moment of that middle-ness, but only a moment.

Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. And unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done.

Unless you taste totally, you cannot say. And when you taste totally you still cannot say because what you know is such that no words are adequate.

Don’t be uptight. Don’t live life according to principles. Live life in its totality, drink life in its totality!

There is no need to develop a conscience at all. What is needed is consciousness, not conscience. Conscience is a pseudo-thing. Conscience is created in you by the society, and it is a subtle form of slavery.

It does not matter what you do. What matters is how you do it--of your own accord, with your own vision, with your own love. Then whatever you touch becomes gold.