First in the Morning Quotes

“Man is always at the crossroads: each step and there is a choice, each step and you can go wrong or right. When sadness and cheerfulness confront you, always choose cheerfulness. When seriousness and playfulness confront you, always choose playfulness. And remember: we become whatsoever we choose. It is simply a question of choice.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“Everything is infinite because everything is divine. Everything is unbounded because everything participates in the nature of existence. Boundaries are created by our senses; they are not there at all. Everything is joined with everything else, but our senses create boundaries. It is as if you look out of a window and it gives a frame to the sky. The sky is unframed, but the frame of the window becomes the frame of the sky.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“Life is always new, mind is always old. Life is never old, mind is never new. Hence they never meet, they can’t meet. Mind moves backward, life moves forward. So those who try to live life through the mind are simply doing something so utterly stupid that the day they recognize what they have been doing to themselves, they will not be able to believe that they could have been so stupid, so ridiculous, so absurd.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“There is no point in making any fuss about it. Either you drop the ego and all its companions – jealousy, domination, possessiveness – and then love flows and there is bliss, or, you cling to the ego. Then love disappears, bliss disappears, God disappears, and your life is nothing but hell. The basic requirement is to be aware. The art of awareness becomes the art of love, becomes the art of bliss. That is the whole of religion.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“It has to be a bird on the wing, in the sky – you cannot encage it. Even if you make a golden cage, you will kill the bird. The bird in the cage and the bird in the open sky are not the same; they are two different phenomena. They look alike, but the bird on the wing, in the winds, in the clouds, has freedom and because of freedom it has bliss.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“From this moment, start looking at everything as a blessing. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Even when you sometimes feel pain it is a blessing. You may not understand, but it is a blessing. One day you will understand and you will see that it was a blessing, that it was needed, absolutely needed, that it helped your growth. Even suffering is a blessing. It cleanses, it helps you to become integrated, it takes away childishness, it helps you to become mature. A certain ripeness arises out of suffering. A man who has never suffered remains childish, juvenile, superficial. He can’t understand life’s deeper things. He thinks that life is just a merry-go-round, so he goes on moving from one sensation to another. He is continuously greedy and hankering for all kinds of toys. But they are toys.

A man who has suffered enough becomes mature. He can see that toys are toys — not worth the labor, not worth the worry. He can understand the depth and can see other people’s lives with more sympathy, with more compassion, with more love. Because he has suffered, he knows what suffering is. That makes him more human. So suffering too is a blessing.

Watch, observe and try to find a blessing everywhere. Sometimes it is in disguise and sometimes not so disguised, sometimes utterly nude. But if you watch, you will find it is always there; in success, in failure, in pain, in pleasure, in life, in death too. It is there in summer, it is there in winter, it is there in youth, it is there in old age. It is there in health, it is there in illness. I call that person religious who can see blessings everywhere, who cannot find any place, any point which is not a blessing.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“From this very moment, remember that you are not separate from existence. And don’t only remember, experiment: be one with the tree you are sitting beside, be one with the river you are swimming in, be one with the person whose hand you are holding. Slowly, slowly, experiment being one with the faraway star you are looking at in the night.

Slowly, slowly, the knack of immediately merging into the object is learned. The observer becomes the observed, the knower becomes the known. Then, watching a roseflower, you become a roseflower, there is no separation. In that moment you will come to know two things: love and bliss – bliss for yourself, love for all.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“From this moment, start looking at everything as a blessing. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Even when you sometimes feel pain it is a blessing. You may not under-stand, but it is a blessing. One day you will understand and you will see that it was a blessing, that it was needed, absolutely needed, that it helped your growth. Even suffering is a blessing. It cleanses, it helps you to become integrated, it takes away childishness, it helps you to become mature. A certain ripeness arises out of suffering. A man who has never suffered remains childish, juvenile, superficial. He can’t understand life’s deeper things. He thinks that life is just a merry-go-round, so he goes on moving from one sensation to another. He is continuously greedy and hankering for all kinds of toys. But they are toys.

A man who has suffered enough becomes mature. He can see that toys are toys — not worth the labor, not worth the worry. He can understand the depth and can see other people’s lives with more sympathy, with more compassion, with more love. Because he has suffered, he knows what suffering is. That makes him more human. So suffering too is a blessing.

Watch, observe and try to find a blessing everywhere. Sometimes it is in disguise and sometimes not so disguised, sometimes utterly nude. But if you watch, you will find it is always there; in success, in failure, in pain, in pleasure, in life, in death too. It is there in summer, it is there in winter, it is there in youth, it is there in old age. It is there in health, it is there in illness. I call that person religious who can see blessings everywhere, who cannot find any place, any point which is not a blessing.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“I don’t divide ordinary life from spiritual life. They are one, they are inseparably one. To separate them is to create a split humanity, a schizophrenic humanity. Life is a unity, an organic unity, indivisible. Nothing is higher and nothing is lower. There is no hierarchy, everything exists simultaneously on the same plane. So nothing has to be renounced, nothing has to be rejected.
Of course everything has to be transformed and transformed through love, transformed through bliss, transformed through joy.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“We don’t love life, we hate it, and the so-called religions have been teaching people that life is a punishment.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“Call it truth, god, bliss, beauty: all those things indicate the same phenomenon.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“We have simply to sit silently and be.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“One can waste one’s life very easily because it is so short. But it is strange: if you ask people, “Why are you playing cards? Why are you playing poker? Why are you so deeply engaged in chess?” they say, “To kill time.” As if they have more time than they need. As if time is so useless that you have to kill it. Time is the most precious thing. Once gone it is gone forever. And we don’t have much time: life is really very short. It flies so fast that between birth and death there is not much gap. And people are killing time, not knowing at all that in fact it is just the other way round: time is killing you.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously