Nirvana Quotes

“Nirvana is a state of unconditional acceptance. Wherever you are, if you can accept your life with totality, with joy, with gratitude, if you can see your life as a gift, then nirvana is never a problem. The problem arises only because you don’t accept your life, you reject life.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“If you want to really live, you have to be spontaneous. Life is spontaneous. Be available to this moment. Allow this moment to lead you. Don’t plan for it otherwise you will live in empty gestures, obsessed with dead routine, just thinking as if, if you plan your life completely, some day or other the great happening is going to result.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“A buddha is contradictory because he is trying to bring a truth into language which comprehends both the extremes in it.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“when a buddha says anything, the container is not important at all, but the content. The word is the container and the meaning is the content. But that meaning can come to you only when you grow. Unless you taste something of buddhahood, you will not understand.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“To be intelligent is totally different from being intellectual. To be intellectual is just trying, pretending, that you are intelligent. It is a false substitute. And once you become intellectual, you will become egoistic. Once you become egoistic, you are closed.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Never repress. Repression is the greatest calamity that has happened to man. And it has happened for very beautiful reasons. You look at a Buddha or a Muso – so silent, undisturbed. A greed arises: you would also like to be like them. What to do? You start trying to be a stone statue. Whenever there is a situation and you can be disturbed, you hold yourself. You control yourself. Control is a dirty word. It has not four letters in it, but it is a four-letter word. Freedom, and when I say freedom I don’t mean license. When I say freedom you may understand license, because that’s how things go. A controlled mind, whenever it hears about freedom, immediately understands it as license. License is the opposite pole of control. Freedom is just in between, just exactly in the middle, where there is no control and no license.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Whenever the mind is trying to create a problem, first try to find out whether the mind is playing the old trick again. Because as I see, life is absolutely simple. It has no problems. I don’t mean that life is not a mystery. I mean that life is not a riddle. You cannot solve it.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Don’t allow the mind to create a problem where none exists.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Just sit, in an infinite waiting. Watching, alert, aware, not going anywhere and the miracle of miracles happens – that which you were seeking and could not find, suddenly happens.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“When you stop all reaching, when you drop the whole nonsense of achievement, suddenly godliness comes to you. And when it comes, it comes from everywhere, from all directions. It simply enters in you from every pore of your being. You never reach to it; it always comes to you.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“The first thing to be understood: you are perfect. If somebody says to you that you have to become perfect, he is the enemy. Beware of him! Escape from him as soon as possible. Don’t let him poison your being. Don’t let him destroy you. He may have been destroyed by others; now he is doing the same to you. He himself may be a victim.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“If you don't die rightly, you will be born again. Now let me explain it to you. If you don't die rightly, if you don't achieve the total orgasm that death is, you will be born again, because you missed and you have to be given another opportunity.

God is very patient with you. He goes on giving you more opportunities. He has compassion. If you have missed this life, he will give you another. If you have failed this time, for another session you will be sent back to the world. Unless you fulfill the goal, you will be sent back again and again.”
― Osho, Nirvana

“God is a dancer. He is not a creator in the sense of a painter; he is a creator in the sense of a dancer.”
― Osho, Nirvana

“Nirvana is to live the ordinary life so alert, so full of consciousness, so full of light, that everything becomes luminous.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Never allow yourself this tendency for being great, famous, someone bigger than life-size – never. Life-size is perfect. To be exactly life-size, to be just ordinary, is perfectly as it should be.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Life consists of small things, just your ego goes on saying these are small things.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatsoever you do can become creative. Whatsoever you do can become creative if you know what creativity means.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“going nowhere simply means not going. Going nowhere does not mean going nowhere. It simply means not going – just being, not going at all – because all going is motivated, all going is because of desire.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“I am against a disciplined life. I am not against discipline, I am against disciplined life. Discipline should come moment to moment from your inner being. It should be an inner light, not imposed from the outside. One should move in deep response to life. One should not follow any doctrine, because if you follow a doctrine then already you have accepted a conclusion. You live through that conclusion. You live from a center which is already fixed. Then you are not free. You cannot be flexible. Your principle, your idea, your center, your conclusion, will not allow you to be flexible. You will react according to your conclusion.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Don’t fight – surrender. Surrender to life. You are not surrendering to anybody: it is your life. So the moment I say surrender to life, don’t create a duality in the mind. You are not surrendering to anybody else; it is your life, it is you, infinitely you, expanded you.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Anything – whether it is sex, whether it is food, or whatsoever – once it is denied, once an authority says, “No, it is wrong,” suddenly your innermost unconscious mind starts thinking about it, imagining how to get it. You go on projecting and you go on coloring it, making it more and more beautiful.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Whatsoever is denied becomes tremendously powerful over you, because the mind goes on constantly fabricating fantasies around it. Try anything, try to fight with anything – small things.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“The moment you fight with anything, you give it tremendous power. The moment you fight with anything, you give it tremendous attraction. The moment you fight with anything, it becomes infinitely inviting.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“all that you always wanted to happen starts happening, but it never happens till you stop wanting.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Ego is nothing but the illusion of separation from the whole. Humbleness is nothing but a reunion with the whole, a remarriage with the whole. The ego is a divorce; humbleness is a remarriage, a reunion, unio mystica – when you are again united with the original source.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“If you are trying to do something, the opposite will happen. That is the misery of human ego, that is the hell.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“If you are trying to do something, you will feel helpless. Life happens, it has nothing to do with doing. In the very effort you are creating trouble for yourself. Don’t try to swim upstream. Then you will feel as if the river is fighting you. It is not the river.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Everything that you come across in others is more or less a projection of your own mind. This is the basic religious attitude. If you think it is coming from the other, that is the political attitude.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Whenever you become angry, it is not because the others have created anger in you. It was already there, it may have been in a dormant state. The others can only provoke that which is already there. Their insults cannot create anger in you. If it is not there, insults cannot create it. Insults can only bring it out if it is there already. Anger is not created by anybody else, it is there or it is not there. And if nobody is going to create the anger, then you will start trying to find some excuse.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life

“Whenever you see that somebody is egoistic, immediately turn within, close your eyes, and try to find out the cause in you. That is going to help. If you find a cause within yourself, it can be dropped, it can be transformed. And if you become egoless, suddenly you become tremendously blissful.”
― Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life