Brace yourself, because this post goes deep. Our list of 13 Osho quotes were carefully selected from the book, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships,a beautiful book that will undoubtedly change the way you think love, freedom, and alonenessespecially if youve never reflected on how those topics are all interrelated, and even more so if this is your first time reading Osho. Enjoy!

We spend years of our lives decades even studying math, science, and history in formal educational settings from the time when we are first learning how to writeuntil the time we graduate college and get our final degree yet we rarely (if ever) take even a singleclass on love, relationships, or dealing with our beingSeems a little out of proportion wouldnt you think?

This is not to say thatmath, science, or history are not important each have contributed immensely intheir own right but rather to bring to light the importance of reading, researching and reflecting on the topics of love, relationships, and dealing with your being on your own time. Changing the curricula and priorities ofour educational systems is beyond the intent of this post changing the way you view, Personal Development and Self-Help books, for example, is an idea and action that iswell within our grasps.

Why is it that when it comes to understanding a subject like math, theres an easy and direct connection read books, answer challenging questions, and seek help from educators but when it comes to understanding a subject like ourselves theresonly a, ya-live-and-ya-learn policy?

Why dont we spend more timeimmersing ourselves in thetopics of love, relationships, and inner being when these are the verysubjects that explain who we are, why we are, how we relate, how we differ, how we feel, why we feel, etc., and make up the core of our being thatmanifests into all other areas of study and interaction in our life?

Why must we prioritize learning advanced external information (i.e. math equations)thathas littleapplication or use in living out our daily lives when nearlyeverybody onthe planet (who has their basic needs for survival met) has circling thoughts and questions about their inner lives, their relationships, their being, and their purpose every single day?

Not reading about, thinking about, or reflecting about love, relationships, and our being keeps us shallowand can lead to unnecessary suffering, confusion, and poor decision making throughout our lifetimes. All it takes is one thought to change the entire mental infrastructure from which weview and interact with the world. One thought. Now imagine the life-changing power compiled into the thought collection that is a book!

Our list of 13 Osho quotes below came from the book, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationshipswhichhas served for me as one of the,mental infrastructure changing books mentioned above. These quotes are notmeant to serve as a list of answersbut rather as food for thought. I encourage you to open your mind, read the list, and reflect on how they might shed light ontothe circling questions of your mind as you move forward in life. Good luck!

Many times I say learn the art of love, but what I really mean is: Learn the art of removing all that hinders love. It is a negative process. It is like digging a well: You go on removing many layers of earth, stones, rocks, and then suddenly there is water. The water was always there; it was an undercurrent. Now you have removed all the barriers, the water is available. So is love: Love is the undercurrent of your being. It is already flowing, but there are many rocks, many layers of earth to be removed. ~ Osho

Love has to be of the quality that gives freedom, not new chains for you; a love that gives you wings and supports you to fly as high as possible. ~ Osho

I say to you, you are absolutely free, unconditionally free. Dont avoid the responsibility; avoiding is not going to help. The sooner you accept it the better, because immediately you can start creating yourself. And the moment you create yourself great joy arises, and when you have completed yourself, the way you wanted to, there is immense contentment, just as when a painter finishes his painting, the last touch, and a great contentment arises in his heart. A job well done brings great peace. One feels that one has participated with the whole. ~ Osho

In real love there is no relationship, because there are not two persons to be related to. In real love there is only love, a flowering, a fragrance, a melting, a merging. Only in egoistic love are there two persons, the lover and the loved. And whenever there is the lover and the loved, love disappears. Whenever there is love, the lover and the beloved both disappear into love. ~ Osho

When you dont need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible. But then, too, you cannot be certain whether the others love is real or not you can be certain about only one thing: whether your love is real. How can you be certain about the other? But then there is no need. This continuous anxiety about whether the others love is real or not simply shows one thing: that your love is not real. Otherwise, who bothers? Why be worried about it? Enjoy it while it lasts, be together while you can be together! It is a fiction, but you need fiction. ~ Osho

Unless meditation is achieved, love remains a misery. Once you have learned how to live alone, once you have learned how to enjoy your simple existence, for no reason at all, then there is a possibility of solving the second, more complicated problem of two persons being together. Only two meditators can live in love and then love will not be a koan. But then it will not be a relationship, either, in the sense that you understand it. It will be simply a state of love, not a state of relationship. ~ Osho

When you say to a woman or a man, I love you, you are simply saying, I cannot be deceived by your body, I have seen you. Your body may become old but I have seen you, the bodiless you. I have seen your innermost core, the core that is divine. Liking is superficial. Love penetrates and goes to the very core of the person, touches the very soul of the person. ~ Osho

Love is a ladder. It starts with one person, it ends with the totality. Love is the beginning, God is the end. To be afraid of love, to be afraid of the growing pains of love, is to remain enclosed in a dark cell. Modern man is living in a dark cell. It is narcissistic narcissism is the greatest obsession of the modern mind. And then there are problems, which are meaningless. There are problems that are creative because they lead you to higher awareness. There are problems that lead you nowhere; they simply keep you tethered, they simply keep you in your old mess. Love creates problems. You can avoid those problems by avoiding love but those are very essential problems! They have to be faced, encountered; they have to be lived and gone through and gone beyond. And to go beyond, the way is through. Love is the only real thing worth doing. All else is secondary. If it helps love, it is good. All else is just a means, love is the end. So whatsover the pain, go into love. ~ Osho

Forget relationships and learn how to relate. Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted thats what destroys all love affairs. The woman thinks she knows the man, the man thinks he knows the woman. Nobody knows either! It is impossible to know the other, the other remains a mystery. And to take the other for granted is insulting, disrespectful. To think that you know your wife is very, very ungrateful. How can you know the woman? How can you know the man? They are processes, they are not things. The woman that you knew yesterday is not there today. So much water has gone down the Ganges; she is somebody else, totally different. Relate again, start again, dont take it for granted. And the man that you slept with last night, look at his face again in the morning. He is no more the same person, so much has changed. So much, incalculably much has changed. That is the difference between a thing and a person. The furniture in the room is the same, but the man and the woman, they are no more the same. Explore again, start again. Thats what I mean by relating. ~ Osho

Remain continuously on a honeymoon. Go on searching and seeking each other, finding new ways of loving each other, finding new ways of being with each other. And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable, that it is not possible that you can ever say, I have known her, or, I have known him. At the most you can say, I have tried my best, but the mystery remains a mystery. In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other becomes. Then love is a constant adventure. ~ Osho

Love knows no boundaries. Love cannot be jealous, because love cannot possess. It is ugly, the very idea that you possess somebody because you love. You possess somebody it means you have killed somebody and turned him into a commodity. Only things can be possessed. Love gives freedom. Love is freedom. ~ Osho

If you love a person and live the whole life with him or with her, a great intimacy will grow and love will have deeper and deeper revelations to make to you. It is not possible if you go on changing partners very often. It is as if you go on changing a tree from one place to another, then another; then it never grows roots anywhere. To grow roots, a tree needs to remain in one place. Then it goes deeper; then it becomes stronger. Intimacy is good, and to remain in one commitment is beautiful, but the basic necessity is love. If a tree is rooted in a place where there are only rocks and they are killing the tree, then it is better to remove it. Then dont insist that it should remain in the one place. Remain true to life remove the tree, because now it is going against life. ~ Osho

People should be taught that nobody can love twenty-four hours a day; rest periods are needed. And nobody can love on order. Love is a spontaneous phenomenon. Whenever it happens, it happens, and whenever it doesnt happen it doesnt happen. Nothing can be done about it. If you do anything, you will create a pseudo phenomenon, an acting. Real lovers, intelligent lovers, will make each other alert to the phenomenon: When I want to be alone that does not mean that I am rejecting you. In fact, it is because of your love that you have made it possible for me to be alone. And if your woman wants to be left alone for one night, for a few days, you will not feel hurt. You will not say that you have been rejected, that your love has not been received and welcomed. You will respect her decision to be alone for a few days. In fact, you will be happy! Your love was so much that she is feeling empty; now she needs rest to become full again. This is intelligence. ~ Osho

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Book Overview: In todays world, freedom is our basic condition, and until we learn to live with that freedom, and learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we are denying ourselves the possibility of finding love and happiness with someone else. Love can only happen through freedom and in conjunction with a deep respect for ourselves and the other. Is it possible to be alone and not lonely? Where are the boundaries that define lust versus loveand can lust ever grow into love? In Love, Freedom, Aloneness you will find unique, radical, and intelligent perspectives on these and other essential questions. In our post-ideological world, where old moralities are out of date, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and to find fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole.

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"I Love to Disturb People." Osho -- In a series of excerpts from an interview with Jeff McMullen of Australia's "60 Minutes" Osho offers a series of one-liners about Gandhi, Hitler, the Pope and Mother Teresa -- and goes on from there to talk about his reputation for being controversial, contradictory, and, in the words of the interviewer, "one of the funniest people I've ever met."

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Osho, a contemporary mystic speaks on virtually every aspect of human consciousness. In these talks, the human condition, whether the mind, the heart, love or awareness is exposed with humor and insight, as never before.

In this talk, 'What Is the Secret of Meditation', Osho with his unique perspective, provides profound insights into the nature of meditation.

" So meditation is not against action. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: You become the center of the cyclone.Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely -- with more joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity -- yet you are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you. You are not the doer, you are the watcher.That's the whole secret of meditation that you become the watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do all small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed.Meditation is a very simple phenomenon."

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My favorite sushi place in Monterey Park. It's a good value for California style rolls. I like the decor, it's clean and simple. Not too crowded. I like the beef ribs too.

Wasn't a fan . The sushi just didn't taste Japanese . It was just different . I personally felt that for the price, the rolls were small. The shrimp tempura was different. The crispier on the outside were not something I liked as much as the other tempura batters I've had at other restaurants.Service is very good though.

My secret hiding place. I love this place. The service rocks! Food is great.

Bomb ass food and reasonable prices. They have great customer service as well. I always opt for the bento boxes because it has everything in them- meat, sushi, rice, soup, and salad. I recommend getting the baked salmon roll and spider roll. The portion size is pretty big too. I go here at least twice a month to satisfy my sushi cravings.

Under new management so give them a tryReasonable prices Foods was fresh and tastyServices good and niceDefinitely come back soon

520 in the warm side of the day, oysters are fresh, eel roll my favorite, one by one very good to eat, so delicious.

I was hesitant to try this place because of the mixed reviews and a couple of claims of food poisoning. BUT, the husband has been craving katsudon and this was like the only option in the area open on Sunday afternoon with katsudon on their menu. We figured we were safe from any food poisoning red flags since we weren't planning on ordering any sushi, only deep-fried items. Husband ordered katsudon when the very nice and well-meaning server informed us that the chef doesn't put egg in the katsudon. So I asked, "No egg? What's the difference between your katsudon and your katsu bowl then besides the $2 price difference?"She said she would check with the chef if he could try making katsudon with egg. I don't understand how you have an item on your menu that is missing a key ingredient... if you don't make katsudon with egg, don't call it katsudon. Seems simple enough, right?Server returns and said the chef was willing to try to make it with the egg. Apparently he asked another chef how to make it with egg and was going to give it the old college try. I not being as adventurous as my husband, ordered the chicken katsu bowl. After a 20+ minute wait, our food arrived. The egg was a little under on the katsudon but safe enough to consume. I took a bite of my chicken katsu and immediately noticed it wasn't a tender piece of chicken, but chewier like pork. I examined the grain on the meat, which looked like pork and not chicken. I asked the server if she was sure they gave me chicken katsu and not pork.She wasn't sure so she said she'd go check with the chef. She returned a few minutes later and assured me that it was chicken and that they use white meat, so if it were pork, it would be a little pink. Not wanting to argue with her further, since at this point it's my word against the chef's, I just said fine and ate the side order of chicken karaage we also ordered.The chicken karaage didn't come with lemon wedges, which was super necessary since the karaage was on the salty side. We were able to get lemon from the very nice sushi chef however. All in all, the staff is nice and I'm sure they mean well, but this place is unauthentic. I won't be returning. If my husband wants katsudon next time, I'll just cook it myself.

I just had a great dinner here! When entering, I was greeted with a warm, welcoming smile by a very friendly hostess. I loved the Japanese artwork on the walls and the entire restaurant made me feel like I was in Okinawa. I ordered a few sushi rolls and all of them were excellent and large for the price! Tip: There are two separate private dining rooms in the back which would be ideal for hosting a small dinner party. All in all, I really enjoyed the food, ambiance and the very friendly service. I will definitely return!

They are finally open with new managers after a year off. My first time here and the food was pretty good. Delicious slices of sushi with an exceptional staff. Everyone is super friendly and the food will not disappoint. They are still remodeling the place and getting settled in. It is located in a small plaza nicely facing the street. I will be coming back soon. The prices are decent but worth it for the quality you are getting.

The servers are wonderful and attentive. They're quick and are communicative. It's such a hole in the wall, hidden gem! Also 30 percent off sushi rolls. They have ice cream and japanese style mont blanc. The food is delicious and the service is awesome!

Osho Sushi you have redeemed my business. The new team has been doing a great job, and I really enjoyed my food on my last visit. Everything was fresh and tasty. Almost everything is 30% off right now so it's more budget friendly. I recommend if you haven't been here yet please do so and give new management another try.

We ordered seafood hot pot. No fresh seafood at all. Those are all hot pot leftover food : Fish ball, fake crab meat and other frozen seafood! Can't compare with the picture they shown on the menu at all !! Cancel the whole item and left this restaurant !! So disappointed !

Cleanliness... I saw a cobb web dangling near our booth. The table is sticky.Food was mediocre. The sushi was huge but not chilled. Chicken teriyaki was ordinary. Customer service was decent, they mentioned the weather was hot, so they offered watermelon.Generally when I go to as Japanese restaurant, I feel happy afterwards. Today, after eating Japanese, I'm left feeling disappointed.

Maybe it was the expectations, but Osho is not one of the better sushi restaurants in the Los Angeles area.I came here on a weekday for lunch, and the place was empty. Between 2 people, we ordered a chirashi bowl and a beef teriyaki and sashimi combo. We were utterly disappointed.The chirashi bowl is practically a scam. The bowl looked delicious and replete with delicious sashimi; however, I was deceived by the fat layer of seaweed underneath the sashimi. Not only was the variety scant, the fish was cut by someone who clearly did not know how to slice sashimi. many of the pieces came out trangular and oddly-shaped, which detracted from the texture of the fish. Even if the fish were fresh, I really could not tell past all of the other deficiencies. One saving grace for the chirashi bowl is the rice, which was delicious. However, that is simply not enough to justify the prices when Sushi Gen and Akasaka are not too far away.The beef teriyaki and sashimi combo was also underwhelming. It is hard to screw up beef teriyaki, and I can't say Osho sushi made it terribly. However, I have never felt so unsatisfied with an order of beef teriyaki combo before.If I were you, would steer clear of this place. After eating, I understood why the restaurant was empty.

Just heard they change new owner, so come to try. The food are so so so fresh and delicious. We sit at sushi bar, the sushi chefs are very friendly. We ordered sashimi, sushi, roll and some BBQ. Highly recommend the chicken cartilage. We ordered twice 🙂 If you like Japanese good, come here. You will be satisfied

Very bad quality of food. The food was very dehydrated and old. I used to love this place but the one in Rosemead. I thought this one will be the same but it wasn't good for the price. I don't care to pay for good food but this one was so horrible. My friends and i were very disappointed with the place and service. We never go back to that place. I don't recommend it to anybody! Is not worth it..

My husband took me here and it's our first time. The restaurant has just changed new owner. We ordered Yellowtail, Tuna Sashimi. Uni Sushi. They are super fresh! I had a Salmon skin handroll, I love it! We also had BBQ chicken cartilage, it's my favorite! The service is great!

This is a bad place for Japanese food... the sashimi is not fresh.. service is bad. I will never eat at this place again

Food is mediocre, and waitresses need to check their attitudes. Why does the review need to be long to be posted.. We'll.. I'll just increase the number of words then.

I was there with my family. It was totally disaster experience. My wife and I still felt like to throw up two hour after dinner. The sushi rice is horrible with no flavor at all. The grill salmon was not fully cooked. I don't know how they fry the tempura. Still felt the oil from my mouth. It was not the Osho I knew. Keep away from that restaurant.

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If you love a flower, dont pick it up. 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.

Whenever were looking for motivational quotes about life or love, we tend to find them among the teachings of great spiritual leaders. Rumi is usually a reliable source, along with Buddha, and others like them.

One of those leaders is Osho. He has gone by Rajneesh and several other names, but Osho was an indian teacher, spirtual advisor and mystic, who preached about finding peace and truth by looking inwards into ones self. This was a very different approach as the more popular mono-theistic religions focused on a single god who remains in control of the world we know religions Osho studied himself.

Rajneesh was perhaps the firstof the great teacherswho had carefully examinedtenets of other faiths;he could rightly claimto be the only teacherwho was a scholarof comparative religions.

Although his life was short, he was prolific in his output, releasing 600 books and several thousand lectures over the course of his 58-year life.

Here weve narrowed down this huge collection of material to the 25 best quotes on topics like love, experience, life and much more. We hope they provide the same inspiration

1. Osho On Madness:

Life repeats itself mindlessly unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. Osho

2. Osho On Experience:

Experience life in all possible ways good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Dont be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. Osho

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3. Osho On Love:

When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give to give for the sheer joy of giving then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon. OSHO

4. Osho On Pain:

This pain is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing. This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. OSHO

5. Osho On Living In The Moment:

The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which dont exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment. OSHO

6. Osho On Beauty:

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

7. Osho On Grabbing Hold Of Life:

Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. OSHO

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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

9. Osho On Becoming Someone:

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.

10. Osho on Taking One Step At A Time:

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. OSHO

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11. Osho On Ignorance:

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. OSHO

12. Osho On Meditation:

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently OSHO

13. Osho On Creativity:

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. OSHO

14. Osho on Parenting:

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Dont make him afraid of the unknown, give him support. OSHO

15. Osho On Learning:

Its not a question of learning much. On the contrary. Its a question of UNLEARNING much. OSHO

16. Osho On Suffering:

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they dont know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue. OSHO

17. Osho On Truth:

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. OSHO

18. Osho On Destiny:

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny he or she has something to fulfill, some message that has to be delivered, some work that has to be completed. You are not here accidentally you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. OSHO

19. Osho On Courage:

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown. OSHO

20. Osho On Competition:

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself. OSHO

21. Osho On God:

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean. OSHO

22. Osho On Fame:

Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive? OSHO

23. Osho On Enlightenment:

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

24. Osho On Judgement:

Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. OSHO

25: Osho On Balance In Life:

Life is a balance between rest and movement. OSHO

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Osho Quotes: The 25 Best Sayings On Truth, Life & Love

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Here are 250 Osho quotes on love, life, meditation, marriage and more. Osho, also known as Bhagwan Rajneesh was a spiritual master and enlightened being who created quite a wave in the twentieth century. You might also be interested in some of the Osho Books available as free downloads.

You may also be interested in the Spiritual Quote of the Day Android App, which includes quotes from Osho, Sadhguru, Gautama Buddha and many more great beings.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

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.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and thats why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

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.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

Never ask, Who is my real friend? Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody? That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other peoples opinions who dont know themselves.

Just get out of your own way.

Only idiots are not controversial.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

No, I dont want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ? and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Dont be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

It is imperfect, and thats why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other persons individuality, his privacy.

Man is always exploited through fear.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

Its not a question of learning much. On the contrary. Its a question of unlearning much.

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

If you love a flower, dont pick it up. 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.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Dont be bothered by perfection. Replace the word Perfection by Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

Dont be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

Whatever you are doing, dont let past move your mind;dont let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

Dont be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Dont condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Be. Dont try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Never obey anyones command unless it is coming from within you also.

Thats why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Dont analyze, celebrate it.

NOW is the only reality all else is either memory or imagination.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Dont lose it for anything. . . .

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.

If you cannot love yourself, you dont know even the taste of love or what love means.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

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250 Osho Quotes on Love, Life and Meditation - Patheos

In the West we see cults. They have a very long history. Christianity itself started as a cult. It became religion through Roman power. The most destructive cults in recent memory have originated from the vision of apocalypse and Armageddon, which are an integral part of Christian worldview. Jonestown massacre/mass suicide of almost 900 people (1978) was crafted by Jim Jones, who preached apostolic socialism a variant of liberation theology encouraged by the mainstream Church to create militant movements in post-colonial countries.

In 1993, Brach Davidians, a Christian religious group, believing in the second coming of Jesus as being near imminent went up in flames in Texas killing 70 inmates including women and children in an apparent mass suicide after an armed confrontation with law enforcing officials. Heavens Gate cult (1997) performed a mass suicide with their vision that combined a cocktail of UFO-Armageddon beliefs. Between 1994 to 1997 Order of the Solar Temple cult, which aimed at unifying Christianity and Islam, effected mass suicides of more than 25 people.

The only Eastern cult which did such a gruesome mass murder was Aum Shinrikyo. Originally a yoga movement that combined Buddhist and Hindu thoughts, it became a doomsday cult after incorporating in it the vision of apocalypse from the Christian Book of Revelation and prophecies of Nostradamus. Obsessed with Biblical vision of the Doomsday, they struck the Tokyo subway in 1995 with poison gas killing 12 and damaging the visions of 5,000 people.

Another movement that combined the elements of guru and cult was the Rajneesh movement. When in Oregon, establishing their own township, the group got into conflict with local administration as well as Christian and Islamic fundamentalists. In 1983, Jamaat ul-Fuqra, an US and Pakistan-based Islamic fundamentalist group bombed a hotel with a Zorba the Buddha nightclub run by Rajneesh group. In 1984, Rajneesh organisation tried to sway local elections by, if had gone undetected, what could have been the largest bio-terror attack in United States history. Rajneesh Chandramohan then Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh pleaded guilty and escaped imprisonment. Then he made a complete image makeover.

Alleging CIA-Christian conspiracies against him he became a genius of pop-spirituality. Today, Acharya Rajneesh alias Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh alias Osho is associated with absolute freedom and not Uzi-wielding private militia and centralised surveillance of every member of the commune much less a bio-terror attack. Osho commune has also cultivated the art of associating with those in power. In 2004, when United Progressive Alliance came to power, they did not hesitate to offer the project of building meditation hall at Osho Commune of Pune to a little known engineering firm Backops, whose 85 per cent shares were then owned by Rahul Gandhi. Rajneesh (1931-1990) is now well entrenched in the mainstream spiritual legacy of India. Many of the so-called corporate gurus today can be considered as Rajneesh-clones none of whom, nevertheless could never match his original brilliance.

Rajneesh movement provides a good case study into how a guru phenomenon can transform into a cult and then retract back to become the guru phenomenon in the modern socio-political context.

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Of Gurus, Cults And The Future - Swarajya

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) have announced the appointment of Babatunde Osho to the first Africa Regional Board.

Regional Vice President of the Association, Badibanga Promesse, who made the announcement, said the appointment, which takes effect from August 2017, followed a call for nominations and elections for the first Africa Regional Board under the association.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Babatunde Osho and others from various countries to serve as board members for the next one year of extended term, he said.

Osho, a multi-functional business professional, is currently Director and Chief Executive Officer, MTN Liberia.

According to Promesse, the Regional Boards serve as a key conduit between the customers, stakeholders and the CGMA Board of Directors.

They also serve as the eyes and ears of the profession from their individual and geographical representative perspective in identifying key macro and micro trends in the local marketplaces, among others.

He said the boards understand the demand and potential value proposition of products and offerings along the entire value chain continuum, representing, engaging, presenting and advocating for the CGMA designation among the CIMA and AICPA members.

He noted that the Chairman and Vice Chairman would serve a one-year term with the Vice Chairman becoming the Chairman.

Promesse said members of the Regional Boards could serve a maximum of three one-year term to provide continuity while creating opportunities for a large and diverse stakeholder groups to serve.

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AICPA, CIMA appoint Osho Africa regional board member - Guardian (blog)

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (AICPA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has announced the appointment of Babatunde Osho from Nigeria to the first Africa Regional Board with effect from August 2017.

The announcement was made public by the Regional Vice-President of the Association, Badibanga Promesse, saying, following a call for nominations and elections for the first Africa Regional Board under the Association, We are pleased to announce the appointment of Babatunde Osho and others from various countries to serve as board members for the next one year of extended term.

Promesse disclosed, I look forward to some exciting time under the Association and cannot wait to get things in motion and provide excellent services to our members and students in Africa.

Osho, a multi-functional business professional is currently Director / CEO MTN Liberia.

The Regional Boards serve as a key conduit between the customers, stakeholders and the CGMA Board of Directors. They serve as the eyes and ears of the profession from their individual and (geographical) representative perspective in identifying key macro and micro trends in the local marketplaces, impacting the customers and stakeholders understanding emerging issues with supply and demand of students, members, employers, universities and tuition providers.

The Boards understand the demand and potential value proposition of products and offerings along the entire value chain continuum, representing, engaging, presenting and advocating for the CGMA designation within the CIMA and AICPA membership bodies and the Association with members, customers, potential members customers, providing perspective into the development of the Associations and management accounting professional units three year strategic plan.

The Chairman and Vice Chairman will serve one year terms in such capacities with the Vice Chairman ascending to become the Chairman.

The members of the Regional Boards can serve a maximum of three consecutive one year terms to provide continuity while also creating additional opportunities for a large and diverse stakeholders.

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