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What are the implications of taking the easy route in life?

Choose the path that nurtures your inner peace; if it demands sacrifice of joy for gain, turn back and seek clarity instead.

— Osho
According to Osho, the ‘easy route’ is conscious simplicity: keep the basic aim—happiness, peace, and joy—always in view, and choose only those options that preserve it. Don’t worship business or struggle; think clearly, list choices, weigh benefits and difficulties, then pick the path that sustains inner ease. If a course demands ‘poison’—sacrificing peace for gain—turn back; worry wastes energy, clarity acts.

Pick the choice that lets you stay peaceful and happy, and if success asks you to lose that, don’t do it.