“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots.
Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky,
and sadness is
like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are
needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously.
The bigger the tree,
the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion.
That’s its balance.” – Osho.
“Hypocrisy means you pretend to be something which you are not. You
know it, it hurts, hence it creates sadness. The whole world is full of
sadness because
the whole world has been directed to create character, morality. My
effort here is just the opposite. I am not interested in character at
all, in morality
at all. I am not telling people to be immoral, I am telling people
to be conscious, to create consciousness.”
“Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. From sadness to
celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an
unnatural thing.”
“My sannyasins are not to be sad people. Enough of sadness!
Throughout the whole past of humanity we have created sad saints and
sages. It has been a
nightmare. Now we need cheerful sages, saints who are capable of
love and laughter. God is fed up with your old saints. He is
continuously informing me not
to send any more of the old type of saints. He needs a few dancers
in heaven, the singers, lovers - the old saints have made heaven look
like hell. So I am
preparing my people.”
“Now this indivisible atom of consciousness can exist in two ways:
it can exist in sadness - then it is in the world - it can exist in
bliss; then it is in
god. These are just two styles possible, and the same energy is
needed for both. The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant,
stale, creates
sadness. The same energy allowed, expressed, flowering, overflowing,
becomes bliss.”
“You are sad. Go into your sadness rather than escaping into some
activity, into some occupation, rather than going to see a friend or to a
movie or
turning on the radio or the tv. Rather than escaping from it,
turning your back towards it, drop all activity. Close your eyes, go
into it, see what it is,
why it is - and see without condemning it, because if you condemn
you will not be able to see the totality of it. See without judging. If
you judge, you
will not be able to see the whole of it. Without judgement, without
condemnation, without evaluation, just watch it, what it is. Look as if
it is a flower,
sad; a cloud, dark; but look at it with no judgement so that you can
see all the facets of it.”
“That’s how it should be. If you can like your sadness also, then
the sadness is no longer sad. The sadness is sad because you dislike it.
The sadness is
sad because you would not like to be in it. The sadness is sad
because you reject it. Even sadness becomes a flowering of tremendous
beauty, of silence, of
depth, if you like it. Nothing is wrong; that’s what I want you to
be: to like everything that happens, even sadness. Even death has to be
loved; only then
will you transcend death. If you can accept death, love and welcome
it, now death cannot kill you; you have transcended it.”
“When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something
to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only
sadness can
give it.”
“Remain capable of moving with all the polarities. When sadness
comes, be REALLY sad. Don’t try to escape from it - allow it, cooperate
with it. Let it
dissolve in you and you be dissolved in it. Become one with it. Be
really sad: no resistance, no conflict, no struggle. When happiness
comes, be happy:
dance, be ecstatic. When happiness comes, don’t try to cling to it.
Don’t say that it should remain always and always; that is the way to
miss it. When
sadness comes, don’t say, ’Don’t come to me,’ or, ’If you have come,
please go soon.’ That is the way to miss it.”
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