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61 " All that you know about yourself is not you. It is not your reality. All that you think about yourself is others’ opinions that you have collected. Just look at what you think about yourself and you will find bits collected from here and there. "
― Osho , Nirvana
62 " The only wrong that you can do is to remain indecisive. The only sin that you can commit with yourself is to remain indecisive and postpone. "
63 " Don’t be indecisive. Decide. Even if sometimes you commit mistakes, nothing is wrong in them. By committing mistakes you will learn much. Nobody learns without committing mistakes. Even if you go astray, don’t be afraid. Go with courage. Go alert. Sooner or later you will realize that you have gone astray. You can come back. "
64 " People go on saying things around you and you go on collecting opinions, cuttings from newspapers, and that is your whole being. Just have a look and you will find – this bit comes from your mother, this bit comes from your father, this bit comes from your brother, this bit from the teacher, this bit from the priest. Just go on looking how the whole cart has accumulated around you. "
65 " There is nothing wrong in committing mistakes. Just remember one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again and again; that’s enough. Each mistake brings a lesson. Each going astray is coming to the right path in a deep way. "
66 " The ego is the most false thing in the world. But if you accept it, it goes on creating more and more illusions. It is very productive. It does not believe in birth control. It goes on producing more illusions, more illusions. The ego is the mother of all illusions. "
67 " That is the cowardly mind, who wants everything guaranteed. "
68 " Buddha says that the innermost being is empty and sometimes he says that the innermost being is absolute being: empty of the mind and full of no-mind; empty of thoughts, full of no-thoughts, intervals, gaps – full of room. "
69 " You can be emptied of intellect and then you are full of intelligence. You can be emptied of knowledge – then you are full of understanding. Both are true together. "
70 " never pay too much attention to the action. Always pay much more attention to the reason behind it. "
71 " Even in deep sleep, Buddha is aware. He never sleeps, only the body sleeps. The inner light goes on burning. Never for a second is there any discontinuity in inner awareness. When you sleep, you are completely asleep. You become unconscious. You completely lose your being into unconsciousness, into darkness. "
72 " if you know where to stand, if you have come to an unwavering state of your mind, only then is right questioning possible. If you are trembling inside, if you are wavering inside, then you cannot ask the right question. The right question comes only to a mind which has come to a state of unwavering, a certain tranquility. Out of that silence, right questioning arises. "
73 " If you enter life you enter eternity. If you remain on the surface you remain in time. Time is impatience. "
74 " Active and passive… If your mind is active and you are standing unwavering, you can ask a right question which can be helpful. And if your mind is unwavering, soon you will see the inactive phase coming, where you will greet and praise Buddha, where you will bow down and respect the man who has helped you to come out of a crisis. "
75 " Remember, all yea-sayings are not yea-sayings. If your mind is negative, your yea-saying will also be negative. And all nay-sayings are not negative. If your mind is positive, your nay-saying will also eventually turn to be positive. "
76 " When you stop all reaching, when you drop the whole nonsense of achievement, suddenly godliness comes to you. And when it comes, it comes from everywhere, from all directions. It simply enters in you from every pore of your being. You never reach to it; it always comes to you. "
77 " man has been taught to sublimate: repress sex, repress anger, repress cruelty, repress everything, and try to smile, try to wear a mask, have a false personality. Deep down you go on sitting on a volcano and on the face you go on smiling. The smile is false, painted. Nobody is deceived by it, but you go on thinking that you are sublimating. Nothing is sublimated. "
78 " If you understand anger, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. "
79 " The real thing is what is inside you, not what you say. "
80 " First love yourself, love the friends, then you can love the strangers and then you can love the enemies. "