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1 " I say to you that suffering is not holding onto you, you are holding onto suffering. "
― Osho , The Voice Of Silence
2 " Happiness is just near at hand – inside you are full of it. But until you drop this habit of suffering and your ways of enjoying suffering, these springs of happiness will not become available to you. "
3 " Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this – only then will you understand. This "
4 " when you become good at the art of letting go of suffering, then one day you will realize that you were dragging it around with you – and no one except you was responsible for this. Whatever suffering you experienced, nobody else was to blame. It was your wish, you wanted to suffer. Whatsoever we wish for comes to pass. And whatsoever you are is the fruit of your wishes. Neither God is responsible, nor luck; no one has any investment in causing you trouble. The "
5 " To try to know the whole by dividing it into parts is an illusion. It is useful, but an illusion. Illusions can also be useful. Science is one such illusion, it is very useful. Religion searches for another form of knowledge – real knowledge, knowledge which once known can never again become ignorance because it is eternal. What "
6 " the first thing for you to understand about yourself is that you don't know anything. "
7 " Every man is like a jigsaw puzzle until everything has fallen into its right place. The day that happens, the jigsaw puzzle vanishes and God is manifested. "
8 " Everywhere in the world people say, "Be good," but they only say this because they know you can't be – and by saying it they can criticize you and put you down. It is a way of dominating one another. And if by some chance you really become good, the very people who were harassing you to be good will be the first ones to be unhappy with you, because they lose their hold over you. The person who was once under their thumb has now become free. So "
