{"author":"Osho","author_id":"Osho","total_quotes":203,"quotes":[{"text":"You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified.","author":"Osho","tags":["beautiful","children","life","live","society"],"id":3278,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.","author":"Osho","tags":["ity","dignity","freedom","zen"],"id":3488,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.","author":"Osho","tags":["acceptance","inspirational"],"id":11073,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"That’s what meditation is all about, to be capable of being alone. And remember, aloneness is not loneliness. Loneliness is the state of the person who cannot live alone; loneliness means you are dependent on the crowd, on the other. Aloneness means you are happy with yourself, you are not dependent on anybody. The moment you are not dependent you are an emperor, you are a god, a goddess. Now you have something to share, you can go into the world.","author":"Osho","tags":["alone","loneliness","meditation","solitude"],"id":11424,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"You may have read or heard about the so-called positive thinkers of the West. They sayjust the opposite -- they don't know what they are saying. They say, 'When you breatheout, throw out all your misery and negativity; and when you breathe in, breathe in joy,positivity, happiness, cheerfulness.'Atisha's method is just the opposite: when you breathe in, breathe in all the misery andsuffering of all the beings of the world -- past, present and future. And when you breatheout, breathe out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all thebenediction that you have. Breathe out, pour yourself into existence. This is the methodof compassion: drink in all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.And you will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of theworld inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms theenergy. The heart is a transforming force: drink in misery, and it is transformed intoblissfulness... Then pour it out.Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you would like todo it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods -- simple, and itbrings immediate results. Do it today, and see.That is one of the approaches of Buddha and all his disciples. Atisha is one of hisdisciples, in the same tradition, in the same line. Buddha says again and again to hisdisciples, 'IHI PASSIKO: come and see!' They are very scientific people. Buddhism isthe most scientific religion on the earth; hence, Buddhism is gaining more and moreground in the world every day. As the world becomes more intelligent, Buddha willbecome more and more important. It is bound to be so. As more and more people come toknow about science, Buddha will have great appeal, because he will convince thescientific mind -- because he says, 'Whatsoever I am saying can be practiced.' And Idon't say to you, 'Believe it,' I say, 'Experiment with it, experience it, and only then ifyou feel it yourself, trust it. Otherwise there is no need to believe.","author":"Osho","tags":["buddha","magic","mysticism","osho","positive-thinking","self-help"],"id":12488,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.","author":"Osho","tags":["chaos","discipline","inner-self","inspirational","osho","yoga","yogi"],"id":14579,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.","author":"Osho","tags":["chaos","cosmos","existence","order","tao"],"id":15058,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"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.","author":"Osho","tags":["advaita","consciouness","enlightenment","evolution","guru","healing","love","meditation","realization","satsang","spirituality","teacher"],"id":21773,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.","author":"Osho","tags":["ego","meditation","osho","self-consciousness"],"id":23553,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply drop; they become stupid,become foolish. The motivation is not there,the desire is not there, the dreams have fallen.","author":"Osho","tags":["addiction","bliss","enlightenment","let-go"],"id":23700,"author_id":"Osho"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":203,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}