Here is a collection of 35 quotes-picks of the picks- from OSHO’s book: The Joy of Living Dangerously. These inspirational quotes contain insightful wisdom on how to get rid of all your doubts and fears and live a life full of courage, love, joy and freedom. Each quote is unique and riveting and you wish to read it again and again and end up uttering VOW.
1 'Life is an adventure or it's nothing'.
There are always obstacles and fears at every point, and the danger is always
to give up and lose sight of one's dream. The dream is what gives life it's
freshness, vigour and courage.
2 “You cannot be truthful if you are not
courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be
trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are
not courageous. Hence, courage comes first and everything else follows.”
3 To live dangerously means to live. If you don’t live dangerously, you don’t live. Living flowers only in danger. Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity.
4 If you start
getting secure, you become a stagnant pool. Then your energy is no longer
moving. Then you are afraid… because one never knows how to go into the
unknown.”
5 “Courage means
going into the unknown in spite of all the fears. Fearlessness happens if you
go on being courageous and more courageous. That is the ultimate experience of
courage—fearlessness.
6 To accept the
challenge of the unknown, in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are
there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly
those fears disappear.
7 The experience of
the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with
the unknown, makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your
intelligence sharp.
8 When you start
facing the unknown, you stop feeling bored. Life becomes an adventure. Then
slowly slowly fears disappear; then you are always seeking and searching for
some adventure.”
9 “Nothing can be
secure. Nothing is certain. Life is full of uncertainties, full of
surprises—that is its beauty! Life goes on moving with a thousand and one
uncertainties. That’s its freedom. Don’t call it insecurity.”
10 “Insecurity is an
intrinsic part of life, it makes life a continuous surprise. One never knows
what is going to happen. It keeps you continuously in wonder. Don’t call it
uncertainty—call it wonder. Don’t call it insecurity—call it freedom.”
11 Stop being
influenced by people’s opinions. Rather, start looking in… allow your inner
sense to say things to you. Trust it. If you trust it, it will grow. If you trust
it, you will feed it, it will become stronger.”
12 “The way of the heart is the way of courage.
It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in
the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the future to be.
13 “Courage is to
move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the
danger—but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive,
vitally alive, will always move into the unknown.”
15 Sometimes your
heart will take you astray—but remember again, those goings astray are part of
growth. Many times, you will fall—rise up again, because this is how one
gathers strength, by falling and rising again.
16 “Meet people, mix
with people, with as many people as possible, because each person expresses a
different facet of God. Learn from people. Don’t be afraid, 156
17 “Committing
many mistakes, one learns what is a mistake and how not to commit it. Knowing
what is error, one comes closer and closer to what is truth. It is an
individual exploration, you cannot depend on others’ conclusions.”
18 “People have
been taught never to do anything wrong, and then they become so hesitant, so
fearful, so frightened of doing wrong, that they become stuck. They cannot
move, something wrong may happen. So they become like rocks, they lose all
movement.
19 “Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains to maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown.”
20 Once one has
tasted the joys of freedom and fearlessness, then one knows what it means to
live optimally and intensely. And then, a single moment of that intensity is
more gratifying than the whole eternity of mediocre living.”
21 “To grow to your destiny needs great courage, it needs fearlessness. People who are full of fear cannot move beyond the known. The known gives a kind of comfort, security, safety because it is known, but it cannot let you grow.”
22 “There are two types of living: one
fear-oriented, one love-oriented. The love-oriented person is one who is not
afraid of the future, the result, who lives here and now.”
23 Don’t be bothered
about the result when you love; that is the fear-oriented mind. Don’t think
about what will happen out of it. Don’t calculate. A fear-oriented man is
always calculating, planning, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this
way.”
24 “Fear is nothing but absence of love. Do something with love, forget about fear. If you love well, fear disappears. If you love deeply, fear is not found.”
25 “Drop all fears
and love more—and love unconditionally. Don’t think that you are doing
something for the other when you love; you are doing something for yourself.
26 When you love it
is beneficial to you. So don’t wait; don’t say that when others love, you will love.
Love people—you will be fulfilled through it. And when love goes deeper, fear
disappears; love is the light, fear is darkness.”
27 “You cannot bring
the new in your life; the new comes. You can either accept it or
reject it. If you reject it you remain a stone, closed and dead. If you receive
it you become a flower, you start opening… and in that opening is celebration.”
28 What matters in
life is your choice: your choice to learn, your choice to experience, your
choice to go into the dark. Slowly slowly your courage will start functioning.
29 “Why does one
feel bored? One feels bored because one has been living in dead patterns given
to you by others. Renounce those patterns, come out of those patterns! Start
living on your own.”
30 To be miserable
is very cowardly. In fact, to be miserable, nothing is needed. Any coward can
do it, any fool can do it, but to be blissful, great courage is needed—it is an
uphill task.”
31 “Meditation should be an inner shelter, an inner shrine. Whenever you feel that the world is too much for you, you can move into your shrine. You can rejuvenate yourself. You can come out resurrected; again alive, fresh, young, renewed… to live, to be.”
32 “Life is not a
problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to
be lived, loved, experienced.”
33 “Only at the moment of death do [people]
recognize the fact that they have not lived. Now there is no more time to live.
And when there was time to live, you were doing a thousand and one foolish
things, wasting your time rather than living it.”
34 It is your fear
that makes you a slave - it is your fear. When you are fearless you are no
longer a slave; in fact, it is your fear that forces you to make others slaves
before they can try to make a slave out of you.
35 The greatest fear
in the world is the opinion of others and the moment you are unafraid of the
crowd. You are no longer a sheep. You become a lion. A great roar arises in
your heart-the roar of freedom.
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