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Osho Quotes on History

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The reference to five thousand years serves as a reminder of how little we truly know; it invites us to embrace the vast unknown and seek our own understanding rather than cling to inherited beliefs.

The essence of Krishna transcends time; his followers chose to honor the eternal truth rather than confine him to the limitations of history.

The dates of mystics are not preserved by their essence but by the minds of their record-keepers; while Christ's birth is fixed in time, Krishna's timelessness transcends such confines, allowing the message to shine beyond the limitations of biography.

Only stupidity repeats; when intelligence and awareness arise, the cycles of history dissolve into the freshness of life.

Religious power, once it gains dominance, inevitably becomes intolerant, revealing the sectarian mind that transcends individual actions.

Hitler was a dead man, a primitive force that sought to suffocate the living present under the weight of a mythic past; true life demands we shatter the chains of history to embrace the vibrant future.

History is merely the cyclic repetition of human folly, while true enlightenment transcends time, existing beyond the records of the past.