All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Osho

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ~ Nietzsche

Drop guilt! -- because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.

Osho

"The Catholic religion is an order to obtain Heaven by begging, because it would be too troublesome to earn it. The priests are the brokers for it." ~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher

You are not a beautiful and unique
snowflake. You are the same decaying
organic matter as everything else.
We are all part of the same compost
heap.
We are the all-singing, all-dancing
crap of the world.

Fight Club

Osho

Osho

Experience

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become."

Success

Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both -- dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible -- not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.

Responsibility

If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change. Only in the course of time will you start moving into the world of light and crystallization. But once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.

Dead Principles

No dead principles can help, but only living consciousness. Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life.

A Natural Phenomenon

Intelligence is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head; it is taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature.

Awareness

Mind can never be intelligent -- only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary -- revolution in action. This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises -- clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

More Innocent

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun because that's precisely what it is!

Drop the Fear

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Real Revolution

To be alone in the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.

The Mind

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

Time Stops

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Inner Changes

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

To Be Creative

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.

Misery

Misery nourishes your ego. That's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Seriousness is a Sickness

Seriousness is a sickness. Your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor -- according to me -- is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

The Heart

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future. It knows only of the present. The heart has no time concept.

Aloneness

What is needed is not something in which you can forget your loneliness. What is needed is that you become aware of your aloneness -- which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.

The Ultimate Peak of Consciousness

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Arrived Home

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

A Sense of Humor

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Mysteries

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Be

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be! Don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Creative Power

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

The Beauty of Facing Life

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

Be Less of a Judge

Be less of a judge. And you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.

The Heart

The heart is always right, if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart. Because mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated. You have been given it by the society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

No-Mind

If mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Inner Mystery

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Doubt

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through before we can enter the temple of truth.

Truth

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

Be Silent and Listen

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.

There is No Evil

There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep -- and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

"The other Jews call me a heretic. Well, I am. And worse, an iconoclast too: my goal is nothing less than the breaking of all religious containers (and not just Judaism) for the sake of liberating God. In the words of my 18th century namesake and predecessor, Yakov Leib Frank, 'All the faiths and conducts and the books that have been written till today -- everyone who reads in them is like someone who has turned his head backwards and is looking at things already dead. All of it comes from the Gate of Death. But the wise man's eyes are ever in his head so he must look towards He-Who-Walks-In-Front.' Like Frank and the other radical antinomian Kabbalists who came before him, I worship God and not religion; I seek for His salvation and not my own.....or, even less-so, yours."

-- Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain

A vontade é impotente perante o que está para trás dela. Não poder destruir o tempo, nem a avidez transbordante do tempo, é a angústia mais solitária da vontade.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

~ Confucius

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

~ Descartes

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

~ Nietzsche

Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments, but of one's own integrity.

~ D. H. Lawrence

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

~ Martin Heidegger

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

~ Confucius

Most nations, as well as people, are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

~ Rousseau

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

~ Nietzsche

Kalama Sutta

The people of Kalama asked the Buddha who to believe out of all the ascetics, sages, venerables, and holy ones who, like himself, passed through their town. They complained that they were confused by the many contradictions they discovered in what they heard. The Kalama Sutta is the Buddha's reply.

–	Do not believe anything on mere hearsay.
–	Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in many places.
–	Do not believe anything on account of rumors or because people talk a a great deal about it.
–	Do not believe anything because you are shown the written testimony of some ancient sage.
–	Do not believe in what you have fancied, thinking that, because it is extraordinary, it must have been inspired by a god or other wonderful being.
–	Do not believe anything merely because presumption is in its favor, or because the custom of many years inclines you to take it as true.
–	Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and priests.
–	But, whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of one and all and of the world at large, accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it.

The same text, said the Buddha, must be applied to his own teachings.

–	Do not accept any doctrine from reverence, but first try it as gold is tried by fire.

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

Kant

“Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.”

Osho

“If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”

Osho

“Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.”

Osho

“When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.”

Osho

“Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.”

Osho

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart — not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

~ Sartre

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

~ Saint Augustine

"In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable." - Sigmund Freud

For Zen, man is the goal; man is

the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

~ Osho

Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.

~ Osho

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.

Osho

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....

Osho

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

~ Plato

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

~ Spinoza

The hottest love has the coldest end.

~ Socrates

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

~ Plato

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ~ Plato

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For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Osho











Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.


Osho











A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.


Osho







A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....


Osho












A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you dont know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else. Zen is not a believers world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation. Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.


Osho

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Plato was a bore.

~ Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

~ Nietzsche

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

~ Sartre

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

~ Martin Heidegger

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

~ Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

~ Nietzsche

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

~ Epictetus

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

~ Aristotle

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

~ Socrates

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

~ Rousseau

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

~ Plato

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.


~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

~ Schopenhauer

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

~ Martin Heidegger

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Confucius

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

~ Socrates

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

~ Friedrich Engels

Bad men are full of repentance.

~ Aristotle

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

~ Nietzsche

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

~ Aristotle

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

~ Rousseau

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

~ Nietzsche

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

~ Plato

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

~ Nietzsche

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

~ Saint Augustine

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

~ Epictetus

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

~ Leibniz

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

~ Nietzsche

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

~ Rousseau

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

~ Sartre

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

~ Aristotle

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Schopenhauer

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

~ Schopenhauer

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

~ Plato

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

~ Chapman Cohen

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

~ Spinoza

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ~ Plato

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? ~ Nietzsche

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. ~ Socrates

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue. ~ Nietzsche

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. ~ Schopenhauer

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. ~ Nietzsche

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

~ Seneca

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. ~ Hegel

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~ Sartre

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ~ Nietzsche

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods ~ Henri Bergson

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ~ Montesquieu

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ~ Epictetus

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. ~ Sartre

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. ~ Schopenhauer

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

~ Nietzsche

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~ Descartes

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ~ Confucius

Silence is safer than speech. ~ Epictetus