Quotes from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Love is the goal, life is the journey.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“التحدث مع الغرباء يكون أكثر صدقاً، بحيث يبعث ما تكنّه في صدرك. إلا أن التحدث مع الأصدقاء والأقارب -أب وأم وزوجة وزوج وأخ وأخت- يشتمل على الكثير من المحظورات في اللاوعي: (لا تقل هذا، فقد يجرح شعوره. ولا تفعل ذاك فقد لا تحبه. ولا تتصرف على هذا النحو، والدك مسن وقد يُصدم) . وهكذا يواصل المرء عملية التحكم والمراقبة. فتسقط الحقيقة شيئا فشيئا إلى قبو كيانك، وتتمرس بالحذاقة والذكاء في استخدام التزييف. فتواصل الابتسام بابتسامات زائفة، مرسومة فقط على شفتيك.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“When two lovers are really open to each other, when they are not afraid of each other and not hiding anything from each other, that is intimacy. When they can say each and everything without any fear that the other will be offended or hurt.… If the lover thinks the other will be offended, then the intimacy is not yet deep enough. Then it is a kind of arrangement, which can be broken by anything. But when two lovers start feeling that there is nothing to hide and everything can be said, and the trust has come to such a depth where even if you don’t say it the other is going to know, then they start becoming one.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“God has created you because he loved you. He loved you so much that he could not resist the temptation to create you. When”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Remember, being never happens comfortably, otherwise it would have happened to all. Remember, being cannot happen conveniently, otherwise everybody would have being without any problem. Being happens only when you take risks, when you move in danger.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“God has never created a poor man. It does not happen—it cannot happen because God creates you out of his richness. How can God create a poor man? You are his overflowing; you are part of existence. How can you be poor? You are rich, infinitely rich—as rich as nature itself.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Without you this universe will lose some poetry, some beauty: A song will be missed, a note will be missed, there will be a gap—nobody has told you that.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Once you are incapable of loving yourself, you will never be able to love anybody. That is an absolute truth, there are no exceptions to it. You can love others only if you are able to love yourself.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“The river passes by the side of a tree, saying hello, nourishing the tree, giving water to the tree … and it moves on, dances on. It does not cling to the tree. And the tree does not say, “Where are you going? We are married! And before you can leave me you will need a divorce—at least a separation! Where are you going? And if you were going to leave me, why did you dance so beautifully around me? Why did you nourish me in the first place?”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Millions of people have lived on the earth, and we don’t know even their names. Accept that simple fact—you are here for only a few days and then you will be gone. These few days are not to be wasted in hypocrisy, in fear. These days have to be rejoiced.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“The only thing in your hands is your life—make it as rich as possible.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Life is a pilgrimage, and unless love is attained, it remains a pilgrimage, never reaching anywhere.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are—with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Relax and destroy the split that society has created in you. Say only that which you mean. Act according to your own spontaneity, never bothering about consequences. It is a small life, and it should not be spoiled in thinking about consequences here and hereafter.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“الحياة مثل النهر، تنساب بشكل متواصل دون بداية أو نهاية.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“ففي الحب لا وجود للوقت. إذا كنت تحب شخصا، فأنت تحبه، فمن يأبه لما قد يحصل في الغد؟ لأن هذه اللحظة غنية جدا ومميزة”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“INTIMACY WITH OTHERS THE NEXT STEPS When two lovers are really open to each other, when they are not afraid of each other and not hiding anything from each other, that is intimacy. When they can say each and everything without any fear that the other will be offended or hurt.… If the lover thinks the other will be offended, then the intimacy is not yet deep enough. Then it is a kind of arrangement, which can be broken by anything. But when two lovers start feeling that there is nothing to hide and everything can be said, and the trust has come to such a depth where even if you don’t say it the other is going to know, then they start becoming one.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“إن لمل رجل امرأة تناسبه في مكان ما على الأرض والعكس صحيح”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Let the goal of the whole be your goal. Don't seek any private goal. Just be a part, and an infinite beauty and grace happens.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Svi profesori drže jednosmerna predavanja. Studenti samo hvataju beleške jer je jedino to potrebno da se na ispitu ponovi ono što je profesor izneo. I što verodostojnije to ponoviš, što si više nalik papagaju to veću ocenu dobiješ.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“Rabin i biskup živeli su jedan pored drugog stalno se takmičeći. Jednog jutra rabin je primetio da je biskup kupio novi auto. Rabin ga upita:
- Šta to radiš? - biskup je polivao auto vodom
- Kupio sam novi auto "kadilak", osveštavam ga
Sledećeg dana biskup pita rabina
- Šta to radiš?
Najnoviji model rols ojska stajao je ispred rabinove kuće a rabin mu je sekao auspuh.
- Obrezujem ga

To je tačno ono što oni rade svojoj deci. A svako dete je jednako nevino i bespomoćno; ono niti zna šta mu rade niti mu je to potrebno, niti to može da spreči. POrodica je izvor svih okova svesti: ona ti daje u nasleđe svu prošlost i ogorman teret prepun stavova za koje je već odavno dokazano da su pogrešni. Pretovaren si svim time i tvoj um je zapušen tako da ne može da primi ništa novo što je u suprotnosti s već formalnim konceptima u tvojoj glavi. Tvoj um je jednostavno pun smeća.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be fulfilled, how can you be at ease? How can you be at home? It is impossible to live anything totally because the mind is hankering for the future. And that future never comes—it cannot come. By the very nature of your desire it is impossible. When it comes you will start imagining other things, you will start desiring other things. You can always imagine a better state of
affairs. And you can always remain in anxiety, tense, worried—that's how humanity has been living for centuries.”
― Osho, quote from Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

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