Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic

by Osho

Unless one is rebellious, one is not religious. Rebellion is the very foundation of religion.

I am willing to commit mistakes, errors, because that is the only way to learn.”

Life is the basis of all worries.

If you accept death, there is no fear. If you cling to life, then every fear is there.

If you accept death, a distance is created.

When you trust someone, it is very difficult for him to deceive.

consciousness can grow only in silence.

To live religiously means to live joyously, to live religiously means to live meditatively. To live religiously means to live this world as a gift of God!

Live in the world, experience it. It is a school.

My feeling is that the more a man is responsible for his own growth, the more difficult it is for him to postpone it for long. Because it means if you are miserable, you are responsible. If you are tense, you are responsible. If you are not relaxed, you are responsible. If you are in suffering, you are the cause of it.

Any suffering is simply indicative that you are not in communion with existence, that the fish is not in the ocean.

Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers—thoughts, emotions, sentiments—that create a wall between you and existence.

It simply helps you to get out of the mind so that you can have a look from the outside.

The moment you can look at your mind as an object you become detached from it, you become disidentified from it; a distance is created, and roots are cut.

If you are identified you feed the mind;

If I jump into the mind more noise is created, more problems start coming up, surfacing.