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What happens when one maintains calmness in response to questions?

In the stillness of calmness, questions lose their urgency and reveal their true essence, allowing clarity to emerge from awareness rather than reactivity.

— Osho
According to Osho, maintaining calmness and not answering immediately lets unconscious reactivity settle; many questions resolve themselves, and only the essential remains. When you wait in awareness, the reply matures from clarity, not habit or repression. Such mindful interval dissolves anger and confusion, nurturing individuality, intelligence, and loving understanding.

If you stay calm and don’t rush to answer, many problems sort themselves out and your reply comes from a clear, awake mind.