Meditation Quotes

“Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“One Sufi mystic who had remained happy his whole life—no one had ever seen him unhappy—he was always laughing. He was laughter, his whole being was a perfume of celebration. In his old age, when he was dying—he was on his deathbed, and still enjoying death, laughing hilariously—a disciple asked, “You puzzle us. Now you are dying. Why are you laughing? What is there funny about it? We are feeling so sad. We wanted to ask you many times in your life why you are never sad. But now, confronting death, at least one should be sad. You are still laughing! How are you managing it?” And the old man said, “It is a simple clue. I had asked my master. I had gone to my master as a young man; I was only seventeen, and already miserable. And my master was old, seventy, and he was sitting under a tree, laughing for no reason at all. There was nobody else, nothing had happened, nobody had cracked a joke or anything. And he was simply laughing, holding his belly. And I asked him, ‘What is the matter with you? Are you mad or something?’ “He said, ‘One day I was also as sad as you are. Then it dawned on me that it is my choice, it is my life. Since that day, every morning when I get up, the first thing I decide is, before I open my eyes, I say to myself, “Abdullah”—that was his name—‘what do you want? Misery? Blissfulness? What are you going to choose today? And it happens that I always choose blissfulness.’” It is a choice. Try it. The first moment in the morning when you become aware that sleep has left, ask yourself, “Abdullah, another day! What is your idea? Do you choose misery or blissfulness?” And who would choose misery? And why? It is so unnatural—unless one feels blissful in misery, but then too you are choosing bliss, not misery.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Truth cannot be raided; it is attained through surrender, not through struggle. It is conquered through total surrender.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
― Osho, Meditation

“These are the qualities of meditation: a really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Enlightenment is not an experience. It is the state where you are left absolutely alone, nothing to know. No object, however beautiful, is present. Only in that moment does your consciousness, unobstructed by any object, take a turn and move back to the source.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Meditation is nothing but a device to make you aware of your real self—which is not created by you, which need not be created by you, which you already are. You are born with it. You are it! It”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Osho often reminds us that if existence has invited us to be here, who else’s permission do we need to accept ourselves as we are? Once”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“If I cannot be loving alone, if I can be loving only with someone I love, then I am not really mature yet. Then”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness. Meditation is not a technique at all! This”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“With gratitude, everything grows”
― Osho, Meditation

“If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don’t do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“One who is seeking a live balance, a live silence, would like to move to both the market and the Himalayas. He would like to go to the market to enjoy noise, and he would also like to go to the Himalayas to enjoy silence. And”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“You cannot do it, you cannot practice it: you have only to understand”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Meditation is just to be, not doing anything—no action, no thought, no emotion.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Sadness is like a dark night, very deep. Darkness has a silence to it, and sadness also. Happiness bubbles; there is a sound in it. It is like a river in the mountains; sound is created. But in the mountains, a river can never be very deep; it is always shallow. When the river comes to the plain it becomes deep, but the sound stops. It moves as if not moving. Sadness has a depth.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Osho often reminds us that if existence has invited us to be here, who else’s permission do we need to accept ourselves as we are?”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Today, just like the light bulb, meditation is a universal phenomenon—one helps illuminate our outer world, the other our inner world.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and a great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness, it will be a song of meditation. It will be a song of a lone bird calling in the distance— not calling to somebody in particular, but just calling because the heart is full and wants to call, because the cloud is full and wants to rain, because the flower is full and the petals open and the fragrance is released…unaddressed. Let your aloneness become a dance.”
― Osho, Meditation

“If you can get out of the mind you will get out of Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and all kinds of rubbish will be just finished. You can come to a full stop.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Sex is animal, love is human, compassion is divine. Sex is physical, love is psychological, compassion is spiritual.”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“meditation simply says how to go withinward: whether there is a soul or not doesn’t matter; whether there is a God or not doesn’t matter. One”
― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“lo que atrae al ego no ayuda a tu crecimiento espiritual. Con estas técnicas tan simples puedes”
― Osho, Meditación. La primera y última libertad: Guía práctica de meditación