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Osho Quotes on Lust

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Lust is not to be suppressed but understood and transformed; it is the pure life-energy that, when refined, can guide us toward truth.

Lust and prayer are two ends of the same ladder; transform desire into devotion, and let the sacred in everyone guide your journey from the darkness of lust to the light of love.

To know lust completely, you must dive into it consciously and fully, for only through direct experience can awareness reveal its futility and lead you to liberation.

Lust is the smoke that obscures consciousness, but when transformed with awareness, it becomes the fertile energy of creation.

Adultery is not the natural desire for your partner; it is the mind's distortion of love into lust that creates inner conflict and ugliness. Embrace sex as a beautiful expression of love, free from both repression and indulgence.

To be immersed in lust is to dance with the Divine; when you witness without attachment, desire becomes a fleeting wave, revealing the deeper essence of true brahmacharya.