Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

by Osho

You have come alone into the world. You have been here yesterday too, without this person, and you were doing perfectly well, without any knots in the stomach.

Out of fear you are not going to grow. You will only shrink and die. Fear is in the service of death.

death comes and makes everybody equal.

It is better to go inward and find your real being.

The fear is not of death, the fear is of time, and if you look deeply into it then you find that the fear is of unlived life—you have not been able to live. If you live, then there is no fear. If life comes to a fulfillment, there is no fear.

The only courage is to live life totally, there is no other courage.

Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains to maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown.

You have neither lived nor loved; you have simply been dragging, vegetating.

roots are cut; man lives almost uprooted. He has to be made uprooted so that he can become dependent on the society, on the culture, on the religion, on the state, on the parents, on everybody.

Every child is born fearless.

Meditation brings the person back to his childhood. He is reborn.

A real transformation has never happened without meditation,

If you meditate deeply and reach to your innermost center you will suddenly find an eternal life current.

Reality never comes as a problem; it is only the ideas about reality that create the problem.

The man who has understood what his life is allows death to happen; he welcomes it. He dies each moment and each moment he is resurrected.