Life Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is not a result, happiness is a way of life.
Happiness is not the end result of desire. Happiness is an attitude, not a desire. You can be happy here if you know how to be, and you will never be happy if you don’t know how to be and you go on desiring it. Happiness is an art. It is a way of life. If you can be silent and aware of the life that is around you and within you this very moment, you will be happy. The birds are singing, the wind is blowing… The trees are happy, the sky is happy; everything in existence is happy except you. Osho.The New Alchemy: To Turn You On
Happiness is part of unhappiness.
That’s why happiness should not be the goal of your life, because if you want happiness you will have to remain unhappy. The unhappier you are, then only a few moments, few and far between, will be those of happiness.
The goal is not happiness; the goal is bliss. Don’t ask me, “What is happiness?” because that shows you are searching for happiness. If you have come here in search of happiness, you have come to the wrong place. Go to Mulla Nasruddin:
The man went with a bag full of diamonds, and he showed the bag to Mulla Nasruddin who was sitting underneath a tree outside the town, resting under the sun. And he said, “I am a very miserable man, I want happiness. I am ready to give anything for it, but I have not tasted even once what happiness is, and death is coming closer. Can you help me? How can I be happy? I have all kinds of things that the world can give to me, yet I am unhappy. Why?”
Mulla knew all the streets of the town, so he was going zigzag this way and that. And the rich man had never run in his life, and he was crying and tears were flowing down his face, and he said, “I have been robbed absolutely, that was my whole life’s earnings. Save me, people! Help me!”
Mulla said, “Look, I have made you happy. Now you know what happiness is. This bag has been with you for years and you were unhappy. It had to be taken away from you.” Osho. Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1
It has to be so, because only then can it be so rich. If your happiness cannot cry and weep, it will be shallow, it cannot be rich. And if your tears cannot laugh, and if your sadness cannot dance, then it is superficial. In the depth, the sadness becomes a song – a tremendous beauty of silence surrounds you, and a song is born out of the depth.
If you look into it, you will find you are not sad. The sadness is there, happiness is there, and you are neither. This is the innermost triangle of existence; this is the point of transcendence where opposites meet. You immediately transcend. You become the third, immediately. When you see happiness and sadness meeting, suddenly you are separate from both; all identity is broken. Then you know you are a witness. Now it is for you to be identified – either if you want, you can be identified with sadness or you can be identified with happiness. When you are identified with happiness, sadness is suppressed; when you are identified with sadness, happiness is suppressed – but both are two aspects of the same coin; and you are the master. The coin is in your hand; you are not the coin at all. Osho. Come Follow to You, Vol. 3
If you really want happiness, then never ask for happiness.
Then no one will ever be able to make you unhappy, no power on earth will ever be able to make you unhappy. Then, even if this whole world is against you, it cannot cause you one iota of suffering.
If you don’t ask for happiness, then you step outside the circle of unhappiness. The moment you ask for happiness you enter into the world of unhappiness. However much happiness you ask for determines how much unhappiness you get.
This calculation never occurs to us, this paradoxical rule never occurs to us. That is why we suffer so much. We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.
Lao Tzu says, “No one is as happy as I am because I have never asked for happiness.” Pearls shower on you when you do not ask. Someone who never asks for anything gets everything and the one who asks, loses everything. In this world, one who lives like a beggar lives unhappily and the one who lives like an emperor lives happily.
But who am I calling an emperor? I call that person an emperor who asks for nothing, not even happiness; and I call the person a beggar who, even if he asks for nothing else, asks for happiness. So those people we normally call emperors are actually beggars because they are asking for happiness. And it sometimes happens that a beggarly-looking person is an emperor inside. We have seen Buddha – he goes begging on the road with a begging bowl but he is a real emperor. He is not asking for anything, he has given up the desire for comfort. And such a person becomes happy.
Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don’t nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don’t have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don’t beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this – only then will you understand.
This is the deepest experiment of life. And whatever has been discovered in regard to life, this is the most significant finding of all: don’t ask for happiness if you want to be happy, don’t ask for peace if you want to be peaceful. Whatever you ask for will be lost. Whatever you do not ask for you will get. You have asked many times and seen that you do not receive it. Now try not asking and see. There is no need to believe me; there is a need to experiment. Osho. The Voice of Silence
Everything returns to its original source has to return to its original source.
If you understand life then you understand death also. Life is a forgetfulness of the original source, and death is again a remembrance. Life is going away from the original source, death is coming back home. Death is not ugly, death is beautiful. But death is beautiful only for those who have lived their life unhindered, uninhibited, unsuppressed. Death is beautiful only for those who have lived their life beautifully, who has not been afraid to live, who have been courageous to live – who loved, who danced, who celebrated.
Death becomes the ultimate celebration if your life is a celebration. Let me tell you in this way: whatsoever your life is, death reveals only that. If you have been miserable in life, death reveals misery. Death is a great revealer. If you have been happy in your life, death reveals happiness. If you have lived only a life of physical comfort and physical pleasure, then of course death is going to be very uncomfortable and unpleasant because the body has to be left. The body is just a temporary abode, a serai in which we stay for the night and have to leave in the morning. It is not your permanent abode, it is not your home.
So if you have lived just a bodily life and you have never known anything beyond the body, death is going to be very, very ugly, unpleasant, painful. Death is going to be anguish. But if you have lived a little higher than the body – if you have loved music and poetry, and you have loved, and you have looked at the flowers and the stars, and something of the non-physical has entered into your consciousness – death will not be so bad, death will not be so painful. You can take it with equanimity, but still, it cannot be a celebration.
So you can find three expressions about death in the history of the human mind. One expression is of the ordinary man who lives attached to his body, who has never known anything greater than the pleasure of food or sex, whose whole life has been nothing but food and sex, who has enjoyed food, has enjoyed sex, whose life has been very primitive, whose life has been very gross, who has lived in the porch of his palace, never entered it, and who had been thinking that this is all life is. Then at the moment of death, he will try to cling. He will resist death, he will fight death. Death will come as the enemy. The Art of Living and Dying
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