Osho's Readings III

Substitutes never help; they only create perversions, obsessions.

a man who really loves will sometimes be really angry. But his anger is beautiful-- it is out of love.

do you think it is a question of doing something as much as you can? it is not a question of doing. it is a phenomenon of the heart. it is a kind of transcendence of the mind and the body. it is not prose, it is poetry.

love is not something you do, love is something that you are. love is never a should, it cannot be commanded.

start behaving responsibly and then, you are not a machine. watch, become alert, observe, and go on dropping all the reactive patterns in you. each moment try to respond to the reality, as it is outside. Respond with your total consciousness but not with your mind.

and then when you respond spontaneously and you don't react, action is born. action is beautiful, reaction is ugly. only a man of awareness acts, the man of unawareness reacts. action liberates. reaction goes on creating the same chains, goes on making them thicker and harder and stronger.

Live a life of response, and not of reaction!

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Excerpts from the Osho's " The Book of MAN "


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