Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

by Osho

secure—all idiots feel secure. In fact, only idiots feel secure. A really alive man will always feel insecure.

a secure life will be worse than death.

You can never come to a moment when you can say, “Now I am certain.” When you say you are certain, you simply declare your death; you have committed suicide.

Everything was certain in the jail; everything was dead routine. His food was supplied, protection was given to him; there was no fear that he would be hungry next day and there would be no food—nothing like that, everything was certain.

Freedom creates fear.

I give you understanding; I don’t give you knowledge. Knowledge will make you certain.

Don’t call it uncertainty—call it wonder. Don’t call it insecurity—call it freedom.

In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.

between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is that the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead.

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If you try to show your strength, you will be defeated. All Hitlers, all Napoleons, all Alexanders are big trees, strong trees. They will all be defeated. Lao Tzus are just like small plants: nobody can defeat them because they are always ready to yield. How can you defeat a person who yields, who says, “I am already defeated,” who says, “Sir, you enjoy your victory, there is no need to create any trouble. I’m defeated.”

A man who is fearless is neither afraid of anybody nor makes anybody afraid of him. Fear totally disappears.

It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the future to be. Courage is to move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger—but then, they are already dead.

person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown.

What is your mind? It is all that you have known. It is the past, the dead, that which has gone. Mind is nothing but the accumulated past, the memory. Heart is the future; heart is always the hope, heart is always somewhere in the future. Head thinks about the past; heart dreams about the future.

The heart is always ready to take the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates–it is cunning.

Why are you afraid? What can the world do to you? People can laugh at you; it will do them good—laughter is always a medicine, healthful.

Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.

conclusion the conclusion protects you; the conclusion gives you security,

there is a different kind of knowing. It cannot be called “knowledge.” It is more like love, less like knowledge. It is so intimate that the word knowledge is not sufficient to express it.

like learning. add the story of my friend with three master.

Science is the murder of mystery.

concerned—when there is nobody in you, just a pure silence, a virgin silence, undistracted, undisturbed by logic, thought, emotion, feeling—that is the moment of meditation. Mind is gone, and when mind is gone mystery enters.

because intelligence knows, “Whatsoever happens, I will be able to take the challenge, to respond adequately.”