Emotional Wellness Quotes

“Drop comparing, and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way. Grow up, become a more and more authentic individual. Love yourself and respect yourself the way existence has made you, and then immediately the doors of heaven open for you. They were always open; you simply had not looked at them.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Someday the man you have loved, the woman you have loved, may find somebody else. It is simply human to be happy—but your woman is happy with somebody else. It does not make any difference whether she is happy with you or happy with somebody else, she is happy. And if you love her so much, how can you destroy her happiness? A”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“I am not saying to accept yourself in order to be transformed—otherwise you have not accepted yourself at all, because deep down the desire is for transformation. You say, “Okay, if this brings transformation then I will accept myself.” But this is not acceptance; you have missed the whole point. You are still desiring transformation. If I guarantee it to you, and you accept yourself because of the guarantee, where is the acceptance? You are using acceptance as a means; the goal is to be transformed, to be free, to attain to self-realization, to nirvana. Where is the acceptance? Acceptance has to be unconditional, for no reason at all, without any motivation.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Life is also a great instrument. You have to learn how to play upon it. Nothing has to be cut, destroyed, repressed, rejected. All that existence has given to you is beautiful. If you have not been able to use it beautifully, it simply shows that you are not yet artful enough. We have all taken our lives for granted, and that is wrong. We are given only a raw possibility. We have been given only a potential for life; we have to learn how to actualize it. All”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and a great jealousy will be the outcome. It is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison. Otherwise, if you drop comparing, jealousy disappears. Then you simply know you are you, and you are nobody else, and there is no need.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Gibran says: Once I asked such a scarecrow, “I can understand the farmer who made you—he needs you. I can understand the poor animals—they don’t have great intelligence to see that you are bogus. But in the rain, in the sun, in the hot summer, in the cold winter, you remain standing here: for what?” And the scarecrow said, “You don’t know my joy. Just to make those animals afraid is such a joy that it is worth suffering rain, suffering sun, suffering heat, winter, everything. I am making thousands of animals afraid! I know I am bogus, there is nothing inside me, but I don’t care about that. My joy is in making others afraid.” I want to ask you: Would you like to be just like this bogus man—nothing inside, making somebody afraid, making somebody happy, making somebody humiliated, making somebody respectful? Is your life only for others? Will you ever look inside?”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“It is others’ opinion about you that creates the ego.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Start meditating. Start putting off the constant chattering of the head. Slowly, the mind becomes quiet. Get into things where the mind is not needed—for example, dancing. Dance, and dance to abandon, because in dance the mind is not needed. You can lose yourself in a dance. In losing yourself in a dance, the heart will start functioning again. Drown yourself in music. And slowly you will see that there is a totally different world of the heart. And in the heart there is always trust. The heart does not know how to doubt, just as the mind does not know how to trust.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Go inward and inquire, and you will see that all your miseries exist because you support them. Without your support nothing can exist. Because you give it energy, it exists; if you don’t give it energy it cannot exist. And”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Existence already accepts you—that’s why you are here. Otherwise you would not be. This is my basic teaching to you. Existence already accepts you. You do not have to earn it, you are already worthy. Relax, enjoy the way nature has made you.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Yes, cowardice gives you pain, fear gives you pain, anger gives you pain; these are negative emotions. But peace can be attained only by accepting and absorbing the painful, not by rejecting it.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“The more ideals you have the more will be your suffering and the more will be your hypocrisy, because if you cannot fulfill the ideals, then at least you have to pretend.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“One has to start watching the body: walking, sitting, going to bed, eating. One should start from the most solid, because it is easier, and then one should move to subtler experiences. One should start watching thoughts, and when one becomes an expert in watching thoughts, then one should start watching feelings. After you feel that you can watch your feelings, then you should start watching your moods, which are even more subtle than your feelings, and more vague. The”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Just try to understand a simple fact: human beings are human beings. Once in a while everybody gets bored being with the same person all the time. Be factual; don’t live in fictions. Once in a while, everybody gets fed up; that does not mean your love has stopped, it simply means a little change is needed. It is good for your health, it is good for your partner’s health. You both need a little holiday from each other. Why not do it consciously?”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“See this impermanency of everything. Don’t be in a hurry; don’t try to do anything. Just wait! Wait in a total nondoing. And if you can wait, the transformation will be there. This very waiting is a transformation.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“So next time you come to me with any problem, just first inquire inside whether you would like it to be solved, because be aware: I can give a solution. Are you really interested in solving it or just talking about it? You feel good talking about it. Go”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“All that is painful has to be accepted; a dialogue has to be created with it. It is you. There is no other way to go beyond it. The only way is to absorb it. And it has tremendous potential. Anger is energy, fear is energy, so is cowardice. All that happens to you has great momentum, a great quantity of energy hidden in it. Once you accept it, that energy becomes yours.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“The truly religious person controls nothing, represses nothing. If you are a truly religious person you try to understand, not to control. You become more meditative, you watch your anger, your sex, your greed, your jealousy, your possessiveness. You watch all these poisonous things that surround you, simply watch, try to understand what anger is, and in that very understanding you transcend. You become a witness, and in that witnessing the anger melts as if the sun has risen and the snow has started melting. Understanding”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Each is unique and incomparable—you are just yourself; nobody has ever been like you and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Just become a little alert and start the change from your side; don’t expect it from the other side. It will begin from the other side, too. And it costs nothing to smile, it costs nothing to love, it costs nothing to share your happiness with somebody you love.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“If a person can accept reality as it is, in that very acceptance, all tension disappears. Anguish, anxiety, despair—they all simply evaporate. And when there is no anxiety, no tension, no fragmentariness, no division, no schizophrenia, then suddenly there is joy. Then suddenly there is love, then suddenly there is compassion. These are not ideals; these are very natural phenomena.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“There are so many condemnations of feeling and of the heart that naturally one becomes afraid of feelings. One starts learning how to cut off feelings and slowly the heart is simply bypassed; one goes directly to the head. Slowly the heart becomes nothing but an organ that pumps the blood, purifies the blood, and that’s all.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Love is not a beggar. It never says, “Give me love.” Love is always an emperor, it only knows to give.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Don’t do anything, just ignore…and it is not difficult, it is a very simple phenomenon. For example, there is a chair in your room. Can’t you ignore it? Do you have to do something about it? There is no need to do anything about it. Just take a look at the contents of your mind from a distance, just a little distance so that you can see, “This is anger, this is sadness, this is anguish, this is anxiety, this is worry,” and so on and so forth. Let them be there. “I am unconcerned. I am not going to do anything for or against.” And they will start disappearing.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“If you can meditate, if you can create a little distance between your mind and your being, if you can see and feel and experience that you are not your mind, a tremendous revolution happens within you. If you are not your mind, then you cannot be your jealousy, you cannot be your sadness, you cannot be your anger. Then they are just there, unrelated to you; you don’t give any energy to them. They are really parasites who have been living on your blood, because you were identified with the mind. Meditation means disidentification with the mind.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“I am not saying there will always be flowers and flowers in your life. No, there are thorns, but they too are good. And I am not saying that your life will always be sweet. It will many times be very bitter, but that’s how life grows: through dialectics. I am not saying you will always be good. Sometimes you will be very bad, but one thing will be certain: when you are bad you will be authentically bad, and when you are good you will be authentically good. One can trust, one can rely upon you. When you are angry, one can rely on it that your anger is not false, not cold; it is hot and alive. And when you love, one can rely upon you that it is alive and warm. Remember,”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

“Don’t judge, because the moment you start judging you will forget watching.”
― Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy