Awareness Quotes

“Act,speak with full awareness and then you will find a tremendous change in you. The very fact that you are aware changes your acts.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“He watches,he is clear."

The only thing that he has to learn is to be watchful. Watch! Watch every act you do. Watch every thought that passes in your mind. Watch every desire that takes possession of you. Watch even small gestures--walking,talking,eating,taking a bath. Go on watching everything. Let everything become an opportunity to watch.

And when you watch,a clarity arises. Why does clarity arise out of watchfulness? Because the more watchful you become the more all your hastiness slows down. You become more graceful. As you watch, your chattering mind chatters less, because the energy that was becoming chattering is truning and becoming watchfulness -- it is the same energy! Now more and more energy will be transformed into watchfulness, and the mind will not get its noursihment. Thoughts will start becoming thinner, they will start losing weight. Slowly,slowly they will start dying. And as thoughts start dying, clarity arises. Now your mind becomes a mirror.

And when one is clear,one is blissful. Confusion is the root cause of misery; it is clarity that is the foundation of blissfulness.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“And all are asleep, so all are foolish. Don’t feel offended. The facts have to be stated as they are. You function in sleep; that’s why you go on stumbling, you go on doing things you don’t want to do. You go on doing things you have decided not to do. You go on doing things you know are not right to do, and you don’t do things that you know are right. How is this possible?”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling -- so we are continuously contradicting ourselves each moment. Action goes in one direction,thinking goes in another,feeling is somewhere else. We go on falling apart, we become more and more fragmented.

There are only two ways out of it. They can become meditators - alert,aware,conscious... that's an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconcious thank you are, so you cannot feel the misery,like drugs and alcohol,sometimes even religion...”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad.

Mind has no certainity about anything. If you are betweeen two polarities of the mind,in a limbo--always to do or not to do,you will go crazy. You are crazy! Before it happens,jump out and have a look from outside at the mind.

Mind is basically indecisive and awareness is basically decisive.So any act of awareness is total,full without repentance.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Man wants to make certain about the future,about tommorow--which cannot be done. Let it sink as deeply in your heart as possible, it cannot be done. Don't waste your present moment trying to make the future certain. The future is uncertainity that is the very quality of the future.

One can do only one thing: Be alert and wait.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply drop; they become stupid,become foolish. The motivation is not there,the desire is not there, the dreams have fallen.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you,your awareness, your being conscious,mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beauties of the world, in the ecstasy of existence--rejoice in everything!" Transform the mundane into the sacred. Transform this shore ino the other shore, transform the earth into paradise.
And then indirectly a certain renunciation starts happening. But that happens,you don't do it. It is not a doing, it is a happening.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Man is in a fallen state. In fact, that is the meaning of the Christian parable of the fall of Adam, his expulsion. Why were Adam and Eve expelled from paradise? They were expelled because they had eaten the fruit of knowledge. They were expelled because they had become minds, and they had lost their consciousness. If you become a mind, you lose consciousness—mind means sleep, mind means noise, mind means mechanicalness. If you become a mind, you lose consciousness.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy,you never look deep,you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“To me, meditation is the only true religion. All else is hocus-pocus.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“you start fighting with the waves, you will be defeated. Fight won’t help; you will have to accept the waves. In fact, if you can accept the waves and let your boat, however small, move with them and not against them, then there is no danger. Waves are there; you simply allow. You simply allow yourself to move with them, not against them. You become part of them. Then tremendous happiness arises.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“If you eat watchfully, food will become more tasty. Even ordinary food tastes good if you are watchful; and if you are not watchful, you can eat the most tasty food but there will be no taste in it because there is nobody to watch. You simply go on stuffing yourself. Eat slowly, watchfully; each bite has to be chewed, tasted.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“The only thing that has to be learned is watchfulness. Watch! Watch every act that you do. Watch every thought that passes in your mind. Watch every desire that takes possession of you. Watch even small gestures—walking, talking, eating, taking a bath. Go on watching everything. Let everything become an opportunity to watch.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Unconcious makes you interested in other--things, people, but it is always the others. Unconciousness keeps you you completely in the darknesss; your eyes go on being focused on others. It creates a kind of exteriority, it makes you extroverts. Conciousness creates interiority. It makes you introverts; it takes you inward, deeper and deeper.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“I see a flower and I say, 'It is beautiful!' -- I have changed it. Now I have imposed something on the flower. Now the flower is far away, in between the flower and me is my sense of judgment.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“A few is sitting in a train opposite a priest. “Tell me, Your Worship,” the few asks, “why do you wear your collar back to front?” “Because I am a father,” answers the priest. “I am also a father, and I don’t wear my collar like that.” “Oh,” says the priest, “but I am a father to thousands.” “Then maybe,” replies the few, “it is your trousers you should wear back to front.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Buddha is passing through a village. Some people are angry, very much against his teachings. They abuse him, they insult him. Buddha listens silently and then says, “If you are finished, then allow me to move on. I have to reach the next village, and they will be waiting for me. If something is still remaining in your mind, then when I am passing back by this route, you can finish it.” They say, “We have abused you, insulted you. Are you not going to answer?” Buddha says, “I never react now. What you do is up to you—I never react now, you cannot force me to do something. You can abuse me; that is up to you—I am not a slave. I have become a free man. I act from my center, not from my periphery, and your abuse can touch only the periphery, not my center. My center remains untouched.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Watchfulness is the greatest magic that one can learn, because it can begin the transformation of your whole being.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Mind is basically indecisive, and awareness is basically decisive. So any act out of awareness is total, full, without repentance.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“One of the most unfulfilled wishes in the world is to change the other.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“You have to fight with your anger, your greed, your sex, because you are weak. So really, anger, greed, and sex are not the problems, weakness is the problem. Once you begin to be stronger inside, with a feeling of inner presence—that you are—your energies become concentrated, crystallized on a single point, and a self is born. Remember, not an ego but a self is born. Ego is a false sense of self. Without having any self you go on believing that you have a self—that is ego. Ego means a false self—you are not a self, still you believe that you are a self.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“If you move from one thought to another, you remain in the world of time. If you move into the moment—not into thought—you move into eternity.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Awareness means to be in the moment so totally that there is no movement toward the past, no movement toward the future—all movement stops.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin, and that is unawareness.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“The conscious mind is only one-tenth, and the unconscious mind is nine times bigger than the conscious.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance