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What is anguish? Is it just another name for anxiety?

Anguish is the silent scream of the soul, a profound unease that arises when you touch the depths of your consciousness, unanchored by any specific fear or choice.

— Osho
According to Osho, anguish is not just anxiety; it is a deeper, objectless unease felt only by the most conscious. Anxiety is common and tied to specific indecisions—this or that, to do or not—but anguish has no particular object and no choice involved. It is an existential pressure arising at the peak of intelligence, beyond situational problems.

Anguish is a deep, vague unease with no clear cause, while anxiety is worry about a specific choice.

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