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If you cannot laugh, you will miss out on a lot in life; you will miss out on many mysteries. Your laughter makes you a small, innocent child; your laughter connects you with existence – with the raging ocean, with the stars and the silence.
Life is beautiful because there are so many things that cannot be explained. It would be terrible if life consisted only of things that can be explained.
Just think for a moment: if everything could be explained, then there would be no mystery, then there would be no poetry, then there would be no secrets, then everything would be completely boring and tedious.
Life is not boredom because there are dimensions in it that you can continue to explore. And yet you will never be able to explain them. You can experience a lot, and yet even what you have experienced cannot be conveyed in words.
Life is not what it seems. It is much more, immeasurably more.
You just need to turn to face yourself.
The work of the heart and the mind is completely different; and not only different, but diametrically opposed. The mind creates philosophies, theologies, ideologies – all these are questions that have no answer. The heart simply waits. At the right moment, the answer blooms by itself.
The heart has no questions, and yet it receives an answer.
The mind has a thousand and one questions, and yet it has never received a single answer, because it does not know how to receive.
If you want to change the world, don't start by changing the world – this is the wrong path that humanity has been following until now – change society, change the economic structure, change this, change that, but don't change the individual.
That’s why all revolutions have failed. Only one revolution can succeed, something that hasn’t been tried yet – a revolution of personality.
Change yourself.
Be vigilant so as not to bring into the world anything that makes it hell. And remember: you must bring into the world something that makes it paradise.
This is the whole secret of a religious person. And if every person starts doing this, then a revolution will happen without any bloodshed.
Osho
Life is beautiful because there are so many things that cannot be explained. It would be terrible if life consisted only of things that can be explained.
Just think for a moment: if everything could be explained, then there would be no mystery, then there would be no poetry, then there would be no secrets, then everything would be completely boring and tedious.
Life is not boredom because there are dimensions in it that you can continue to explore. And yet you will never be able to explain them. You can experience a lot, and yet even what you have experienced cannot be conveyed in words.
Life is not what it seems. It is much more, immeasurably more.
You just need to turn to face yourself.
The work of the heart and the mind is completely different; and not only different, but diametrically opposed. The mind creates philosophies, theologies, ideologies – all these are questions that have no answer. The heart simply waits. At the right moment, the answer blooms by itself.
The heart has no questions, and yet it receives an answer.
The mind has a thousand and one questions, and yet it has never received a single answer, because it does not know how to receive.
If you want to change the world, don't start by changing the world – this is the wrong path that humanity has been following until now – change society, change the economic structure, change this, change that, but don't change the individual.
That’s why all revolutions have failed. Only one revolution can succeed, something that hasn’t been tried yet – a revolution of personality.
Change yourself.
Be vigilant so as not to bring into the world anything that makes it hell. And remember: you must bring into the world something that makes it paradise.
This is the whole secret of a religious person. And if every person starts doing this, then a revolution will happen without any bloodshed.
Osho
