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Psychology Quotes by Osho

51 Psychology quotes by Osho

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A garden of thoughts can grow flowers or weeds, depending on what we let take root. The quotes suggest waiting when the mind is confused and seeing the world as separate from our ideas. They also point out that observing thoughts makes us the observer, not the observed.

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“No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart.”

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“Your Mind is a Garden, Your Thoughts are the Seeds. You can grow Flowers or weeds...”

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“the trouble lies deeper, deeper than your mind, and you have to go deep within yourself.”

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“The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.”

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“Comfort is an attitude of mind; it is an approach toward life. I have”

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“Danger for the mind, of course, but not for you.”

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“Our mind is continuously overflooded with ideas, emotions, sentiments. By and by relax, be empty.”

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“Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.”

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“The mind is discontent with everything that is. If you become aware of that, you will start working in a different direction.…

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The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to…

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Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum…

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One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others,…

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“Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the…

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“One lives in the world but the world is not in your mind, the world is not within you. One lives untouched,…

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“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a…

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Wherever there is a desire to have power over another person, it is politics. Power is always political, even on small children.…

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“You get identified with anything. People get identified with persons and then they create misery for themselves. They get identified with things,…

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“With a confused mind, it is better to wait and not to do anything so that the confusion disappears. It will disappear;…

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This mind cannot enter on the path of yoga because yoga means a methodology to reveal the truth. Yoga is a method…

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

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“We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which comes always is today, and…

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“But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except…

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“Beware of your own mind; don’t trust it, doubt it. If you start doubting your mind, that is a great moment. The…

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“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting…

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“Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible –…

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“you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it…

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“You are so full of expectations, you are so full of ready-made answers, you go on interpreting it according to your own…

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“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science…

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

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“And the way to it is surrender. Stop fighting. And to stop fighting just an understanding is needed, because it creates misery,…

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“If you can meditate, if you can create a little distance between your mind and your being, if you can see and…

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“If a negative mind comes to a rose, to a garden, many roses may be there, but he will count only the…

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“When you choose, you divide. Then you say, ”This is good, that is wrong.” And life is a unity. Existence remains undivided,…

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“A beggar came to an emperor’s palace. The emperor was just in the garden so he heard the beggar. The man on…

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“If you look, the first look will say to change the world, because it is so apparent around you. Change it! And…

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“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity…

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“He watches,he is clear." The only thing that he has to learn is to be watchful. Watch! Watch every act you do.…

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“Mm, there was no need, but that s how the mind goes on working. The mind goes on creating troubles which are…

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“MIND IS A DISEASE. This is a basic truth the East has discovered. The West says mind can become ill, can be…

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“People behave as if they were blind and deaf. This is the cunning mind which goes on saying: Don’t go in this…

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“Whatever has been said about you by others, simply drop it. It is absolutely crap. They don’t know about themselves; what can they say…

“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…

“The ego is possible only in conflict, struggle. If you have nothing to fight about, you will create some way or other to fight.”

Politics is mundane; politicians are servants of the people. Religion is sacred; it guides peoples spiritual growth. Politics is the lowest as far as…

“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you,…

“All possible resources have to be used, so that you can learn to use your anger in such a way that it becomes compassion,…

“The three religions born outside India don’t have any name for it because they never went far in search of oneself. They remained childish,…

“Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your…

“No, life is meant to be a celebration; celebration is its central note. If someone asks you, better ask this question of yourself: ”Do…

“Imagination is a great force. On the path of meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the path of love, imagination is a help. On…

Yoga means that now there is no hope, now there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what…