The Search Quotes

“Love a woman as a goddess, then love becomes worship.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Go into your mind, analyze your mind. Somewhere you have tricked yourself.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Dance while you are alive. Breathe blissfully while you are alive. Sing while you are alive. Love, meditate while you are alive.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“thousands of people have said things about you and you have gathered them. Something your mother said, something your father said, your brother, friends, society, and you have gathered all that. Of course, it is going to be contradictory because of so many people, so many mirrors. Your identity is self-contradictory. You cannot call it a self, because a self is possible only when you have dropped living in contradictions. But for that you have to go within. The first step of understanding is that your self is already waiting for you – within you. You need not look into anybody else’s eyes.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“People behave as if they were blind and deaf. This is the cunning mind which goes on saying: Don’t go in this direction – there is danger.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“weakness is not a transformation; again it is a deception.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Training is needed, but training is not the goal. Training is just a means.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Have you seen people in a theater looking at a movie, how different they are there? They cry; as something happens on the screen, tears flow from their eyes. In real life you don’t find them so kind, so compassionate. In real life they may be very hard. But looking at a picture – and nothing is there on the screen, just light and shadow, a game, a dream – they cry and weep and they laugh, and they become excited. Rather than watching the movie, it would be more valuable to watch the audience. What is happening to these people?”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Danger for the mind, of course, but not for you.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“If you try to be yourself, you will feel aloneness. So people follow others, the crowd; they become one with the crowd. There they do not feel alone – surrounded, so many people are there. If you meditate, you will be alone, but if you get mad about money, you will never be alone – the whole world is going there. If you search for godliness you will be alone; but if you search for politics, power, then the whole world will be there, you will never be left alone.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“before anything happens, awareness is already there, a priori.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“the trouble lies deeper, deeper than your mind, and you have to go deep within yourself.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“The ego is possible only in conflict, struggle. If you have nothing to fight about, you will create some way or other to fight.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“It happens when a ship is sinking, the greatest problem becomes this: that the whole crowd runs toward one direction, they all gather together on one side, which makes the ship sink sooner.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“When so many people are there doing one thing, it is easier to imitate them than to do your own thing because once you start doing your own thing, doubts arise: maybe I am right or wrong? With a great crowd doing something, you become part of it. The question never arises whether you are right or wrong. “So many people can’t be wrong,” the mind goes on saying, “they must be right. And for so many centuries they have been doing the same thing; there must be some truth in it.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“This interest in reflections, fictions, dreams, thoughts, images, is the basic reason why man cannot know himself. He is not interested at all in himself. He is more interested in the opinions of others, what they think about him.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal has ever done that. Not only does he draw pictures of himself, he stands before a mirror, looks at himself mirrored, reflected. Not only that, he stands before the mirror, looks at his reflection, and looks at himself looking at his reflection, and so on and so forth. Because of this, self-consciousness arises. Because of this, ego is born.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in pictures, hence in children’s books we have to make many, many pictures, colored pictures. The text is very small, pictures are very big – that is the only way to persuade children to learn to read, because they can learn only through the pictures. The primitive mind thinks in pictures.”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“One lives in the world but the world is not in your mind, the world is not within you. One lives untouched, like a lotus flower. These two last pictures bring”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential

“actions are no more than dreams”
― Osho, The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential