Best Osho Quotes on Life and Love

Joy is spiritual. It is different, totally different from pleasure or happiness. It has nothing to do with the outside, with the other, it is an inner phenomenon.

Loneliness is absence. Because you don’t know your aloneness, there is fear and you feel lonely, so you want to cling to something – to somebody, to some relationship – just to keep the illusion that you are not lonely. But you know you are, hence the pain.

The more ideas you have the more will be your suffering and the more will be your hypocrisy, because if you cannot fulfill the ideals, then at least you have to pretend.

Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything.

Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it

The only thing in your hands is your life—make it as rich as possible.

Each moment, die to the past and remain fresh, and your life will be a great adventure. And it is only for the adventurous people to know what truth is. The non-adventurous live in comfortable lies.

You need not search for uniqueness, you are unique already. There is no way to make a thing more unique.

Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness. Meditation is not a technique at all!

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.

Cultivation means you will be creating something around yourself which you are not.

A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others.

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived.

Love is rebellion because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.

In existence, there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary, there is no superiority complex either.

Illusions are bound to be shattered.

Knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life.