The Book of Secrets Quotes

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Mind is tricky. If I say this is very difficult, the mind says, “This is so difficult it is beyond you.” If I say this is very simple, the mind says, “This is so simple that only fools can believe in it.” And mind goes on rationalizing things, always escaping from doing.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is the very dynamism of the mind to work in polar opposites. So be authentic in your anger, be authentic in your fight; then you will be authentic in your love also. So”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Dangers have their appeal because in danger your day-to-day, ordinary consciousness cannot function. Danger goes deep. Your mind is not needed; you become a no-mind. You are! You are conscious, but there is no thinking. That moment becomes meditative. Really, in gambling, gamblers are seeking a meditative state of mind. In danger – in a fight, in a duel, in wars – man has always been seeking meditative states.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“you cannot understand a thing, you begin to abuse it because it insults you. You cannot understand it! You? YOU cannot understand it? That is impossible. Something must be wrong with the thing itself. One begins to abuse, one begins to talk nonsense, and then he feels, “Now it is okay.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered.

There are thousands and thousands of stories… just by a touch, just by a look, someone became enlightened.


And these minor surrenders prepare you for the total surrender. Once you have known that through surrender you receive something unknown, unbelievable, unexpected, never even dreamed of, then you are ready for a major surrender. And that is the work of the master – to help you in minor surrenders so that you can gather courage for a major surrender, for a total surrender.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“When you surrender you become a valley; when you are an ego you are like a peak. Ego means you are above everyone else, you are somebody. The others may recognize you, may not recognize you – that is another thing. You recognize that you are above everyone. You are like a peak; nothing can enter you. When one surrenders, one becomes like a valley. One becomes depth, not height. Then the whole existence begins to pour into him from everywhere. He is just a vacuum, just a depth, an abyss, bottomless. The whole existence begins to pour from everywhere. You can say godliness runs from everywhere to him, enters him from every pore, fills him totally. This surrender, this becoming a valley, an abyss, can be felt in many ways. There are minor surrenders; there are major surrenders. Even in minor surrenders you feel it. Surrendering to a master is a minor surrender, but you begin to feel it because the master begins to flow into you immediately. If you surrender to a master, suddenly you feel his energy flowing into you. If you cannot feel energy flowing into you, then know well you have not surrendered even in a minor way. There”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am not my mind.”

he found that there is no atman, no soul, because this atma is nothing but your mental information – just doctrines, words, philosophies.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“Whenever you are puzzled in a situation and you cannot see how to get out of it, don’t think; just be in a deep non-thinking and allow the inner guide to guide you. In the beginning you will feel afraid, insecure, but soon, when you come every time to the right conclusion, when you come every time to the right door, you will gather courage and you will become trusting. If this trust happens, I call it faith. This really is religious faith – the trust in the inner guide. Reasoning is part of the ego. It is you believing in yourself. The moment you go deep within you, you have come to the very soul of the universe. Your inner guide is part of the divine guidance. When you follow it, you follow the divine; when you follow yourself, you are complicating things, and you don’t know what you are doing. You may think yourself very wise. You are not. Wisdom comes from the heart, it is not of the intellect. Wisdom comes from the innermost depth of your being, it is not of the head. Cut your head off, be headless – and follow the being, whatsoever, wheresoever it leads. Even if it leads into danger, go into danger, because that will be the path for you and your growth. Through that danger you will grow and become mature. Even if the inner guide leads you to death, go into it, because that is going to be the path for you. Follow it, trust it, and move with it.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“This is Tantra's proposition, that mind is nothing but subtle matter; it can be changed. And once you have a different mind you have a different world, because you look through the mind. The world you are seeing, you are seeing because of a particular mind. Change the mind, and when you look there is a different world. And if there is no mind...that is the ultimate for Tantra, to bring about a state where there is no mind. Then look at the world without a mediator. When the mediator is not, you are encountering the real, because no one is between you and the real.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“Yoga is negation; Tantra is affirmation.”
― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Jesus says, “When someone hits you on one cheek, give him the other. And if someone takes your coat, snatches it, give him your shirt also. And if someone forces you to carry his load for one mile, tell him that you are ready to carry it for two miles.” This is patent foolishness, but very meaningful. If you can do this, these techniques will be for you. Jesus is preparing his disciples for sudden enlightenment. Just think about it. If you can be so innocent, so trusting, that if the other is hitting you, he must be hitting you for your good – so give him the other cheek also, and let him hit it. The other’s goodness is believed in, trusted in; no one is your enemy. When Jesus says, “Love your enemies,” this is the meaning. No one is your enemy; don’t see the enemy anywhere. That doesn’t mean that there will not be enemies and there will not be people who will exploit you. There will be. They will exploit you. But be exploited – and don’t be cunning. Just look at that dimension: be exploited but don’t be cunning. Be exploited but don’t be mistrusting, don’t disbelieve, don’t lose faith. That is more valuable than anything others can cheat you of. Nothing else is so valuable. But”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“If you have a mind, you go on creating a world; you go on imposing, projecting. So first change the mind, then change from mind to no-mind.”
― Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“So the first thing to remember is how not to allow words unnecessarily. When there is a need, you can use them, but when there is no need remain empty, remain nonverbal, mouna, remain silent.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

“If a negative mind comes to a rose, to a garden, many roses may be there, but he will count only the thorns. The first thing for the negative mind is the thorns; that is significant. Flowers are just illusory; only thorns are real. He will count, and, of course, for each flower a thousand thorns exist. And once he has counted a thousand thorns he cannot believe in one flower. He will say this one flower is just illusory. How can such a beautiful flower exist with such ugly thorns, violent thorns? It is impossible, it is unbelievable. And even if it exists, it means nothing now. One thousand thorns have been counted, and the flower disappears. A positive mind will start with the rose, with the flower. And once you are in a communion with the rose, once you know the beauty, the life, the unearthly flowering, thorns disappear. And one who has known the rose in its beauty, in its highest possibility, one who has looked deep into it, for him now even thorns will not look like thorns. The eyes filled with the rose are different now. Now the thorns will look just like a protection for this flower. They will not be enemies; they will look just like part of the happening of flowers. Now this mind will know that this flower happens and these thorns are needed, they protect. Because of these thorns this flower could happen. This positive mind will feel grateful even to thorns. And if this approach deepens, a moment comes when thorns become flowers. With the first approach the flower disappears – or the flower even becomes a thorn. Only with a positive mind can you get the state of a non-tense mind. With a negative mind you will remain tense, with so many miseries all around. Such a negative, inventive mind goes on revealing miseries and miseries and hells and hells. In”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are. And those who are really wise, they become ignorant. They become as simple as children, or as simple as idiots.”
― Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“this whole universe is a constant flux of life energy. It goes on moving. There are no individual units, it is a cosmic whole.”
― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Shiva’s one hundred and twelve methods. And this book, Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, is five thousand years old.”
― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“rich beggar is a bigger beggar than a poor beggar.”
― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within