Best Osho Quotes on Life and Love

The tendency of the mind is to choose the belief, to forget about the experience.

When in love, you would like to be alone; when alone, soon you would like to be in love.

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

Compassion basically means accepting people’s frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Politics needs no other qualifications except one—that is, a deep feeling of inferiority.

If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.

Truth has nothing to do with your belief! Whether you believe or not makes no difference to truth.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.

Knowledge always liberates.

If your life is a tragedy then it has to be a tragedy because others are responsible; unless they change, nothing can be done about it.

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people.

Truth cannot be raided; it is attained through surrender, not through struggle. It is conquered through total surrender.

If you accept it you have joy arising in you, if you reject it you have pain, but the reality remains the same.

You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self-knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook on life goes through a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities--not as something to be done, not as a duty to be fulfilled, but as a joy to do.

The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.