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141 " The quality of being religious has nothing to do with the quality of a believer. A believer believes because he desires. A believer believes because he wants to seek something. A believer believes because he cannot live life without the mind. He always brings the mind in between life and himself. "
― Osho , Nirvana
142 " I know each breakthrough is preceded by a breakdown, but each breakdown is not followed by a breakthrough. A breakdown is simply a situation in which your so-called logical mind cannot function. It comes to a barrier beyond which there is no go for it – it simply breaks down. That’s when we say a man has become mad. "
143 " people who cannot trust, believe. Belief is a substitute – a false coin, a deception. People who can trust need no beliefs. "
144 " the human mind tends to believe in words. By and by it completely forgets that the reality is not in the words; it is beyond the words. It has to be approached through silence. It has to be approached through meditation, not through mind. If your mind goes on creating more and more rows of words, you will continuously be in a futile activity – “much ado about nothing. "
145 " All beliefs lead to blindness. All following leads you away from you. "
146 " Don’t allow the mind to create a problem where none exists. "
147 " People go on clinging to words. Words create more words. Words create more questions and more answers are needed, and then answers create more questions again, and so on and so forth. "
148 " Anything – whether it is sex, whether it is food, or whatsoever – once it is denied, once an authority says, “No, it is wrong,” suddenly your innermost unconscious mind starts thinking about it, imagining how to get it. You go on projecting and you go on coloring it, making it more and more beautiful. "
149 " Don’t fight – surrender. Surrender to life. You are not surrendering to anybody: it is your life. So the moment I say surrender to life, don’t create a duality in the mind. You are not surrendering to anybody else; it is your life, it is you, infinitely you, expanded you. "
150 " The recognition is possible only if you turn herenow. If you go on moving, chasing the shadows, then you will not have time and space to move within. All future is without, and the present is within. "
151 " Hope is a way of postponing life. All desiring is a way of postponing life, and all beliefs are tricks of how to avoid that which is and how to go on thinking about that which is not. "
152 " If you have got cues from anybody else other than your own awareness, you are moving into a very dangerous situation. You will miss yourself and you will not gain anything else. The cost is very high, and out of it no fulfillment ever comes. "
153 " Your mind has deceived you. Cut the mind from the very root. "
154 " Who can show you the way? – because basically the way does not exist. You are always on the goal. Wherever you are is the goal. The way does not exist. If you go on asking about the way, you are trying to create future again and again – and future is the nightmare. "
155 " Reality does not bother about your words – what humanity is thinking, what the human mind decides is truth. The truth is not worried about it. It is not a question of your deciding what truth is. You are befooling nobody except yourself. Your truth is your truth; it is not the truth. "
156 " Be ordinary if you want to become a buddha. Be simply ordinary and yourself, and do your thing and don’t be worried about others, and don’t try to follow anybody else. "
157 " Whatsoever mind comes to conclude is mind’s conclusion. It shows something about the mind; it shows nothing about the reality. Truth is not a conviction of the mind. Truth is a transformation of being. "
158 " Reality does not bother about your words – what humanity is thinking, what the human mind decides is truth. The truth is not worried about it. It is not a question of your deciding what truth is. You are befooling nobody except yourself. Your truth is your truth; it is not the truth. Whatsoever mind comes to conclude is mind’s conclusion. It shows something about the mind; it shows nothing about the reality. Truth is not a conviction of the mind. Truth is a transformation of being. "
159 " Intelligence is not intellect. Intellect is accumulated knowledge. Intelligence is your freshness of being, the virginity of your being, the innocence of your being. "
160 " An intellectual will be consistent. An intelligent person will be very paradoxical. An intellectual will be logical, in fact too logical – hair-splitting, logic-chopping. An intelligent man is not logical; he is simply real – and reality is paradoxical. He has no fixed ideas to force on reality. He has no fixed modes to force on reality. He is flexible, fluid, like water. He is ready to move with reality. Whatsoever shape the reality gives to him, he is available. He never says no. "