Spiritual Quotes from Osho Soul Books

<…> A man who has no desire is spiritual.

A man who does not hanker for any ego-trip is spiritual. A man who is not worried about kundalini andchakras and sahasrar, the one-thousand-petalled lotus opening, that man is spiritual, that man has the quality of being a spiritual man. In his ordinariness he is extraordinary. In his mundane life, he has holiness.

Even the division between the spiritual and material is a materialist’s division. A spiritual person knows no divisions; a spiritual person simply accepts whatsoever is, and this “isness” is one. There is nothing like the spiritual and the material – that again is the division of the ego; all divisions are of the ego. When the ego disappears there is no division, there is one, undivided reality. Call it spiritual, call it material – it does not matter; when there is only one, any name will do.  <…>  Osho. Tao: The Pathless Path


<…> A spiritual man is a great availability.

He says to God, “Whenever you are willing, I am ready. I will wait, and I will keep the patient. There is no hurry, also: if you are engaged somewhere else and much work is there, do it. I can wait for eternity.” <…>   Osho. The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

 

 <…> What are you seeking? If a spiritual person is sincere and honest he cannot say, “I am seeking God,” because he does not know whether God is or not.

 And the word god is absolutely meaningless unless you have known. So you cannot seek God or moksha, liberation – you cannot. A sincere seeker will have to fall back upon himself. The seeking is not for something outward, it is for something inward. Somewhere something is known which has been glimpsed at, which has become the seed, and which is compelling you, pushing you, toward something unknown.

Spiritual seeking is not pulling from without; it is a push from within. It is always a push. And if it is a pull, the seeking is insincere, unauthentic; then it is nothing but a search for a new sort of gratification, a new turn to your desires. Spiritual seeking is always a push toward something deep inside you of which you have had a glimpse. You have not interpreted it; you have not known it consciously. It may be a childhood memory of satori that is deep down in the unconscious. It may be a blissful moment of satori in your mother’s womb, a blissful existence with no worry, with no tension, with a completely relaxed state of mind. It may be a deep, unconscious feeling, a feeling that you have not known consciously, that is pushing you. <…>   Osho. Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy



 

 


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