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11 Stunningly Nurturing Osho Quotes That Will Inspire You Beyond Words

11 Stunningly Nurturing Osho Quotes That Will Inspire You Beyond Words

Simple reminders in love, life and the beauty of the human experience.

If you love a flower, don’t pick it. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

— Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships

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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

— Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships

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I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

— Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships

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Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.

— Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships

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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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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.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of unlearning much.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

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