What should I do if I can't believe in God?

Osho, I simply can't believe in god. What should I do?

"Every hair on your head," said the barber, "is a little hollow tube, open at the ends, so the body's energy sort of bleeds out of it. After you get a haircut it is a good idea to get a singe because it closes up the hole at the end of each hair and seals in the energy. Otherwise the hair and your whole body just keep getting weaker and weaker every time you get it cut." "Now, wait a minute," said the Mulla, "what about the hair on my chin? I shave it every day and cut off the ends and it just keeps getting thicker and stronger. How do you explain that?" "Easy!" said the barber. "You just ain't the kind of a fella this story was made up to tell to!" These are all just stories. If it appeals, good, if it doesn't appeal, very good! Krishna…

Osho, I cannot bring myself to have faith in God. Then what is the remedy for me?

The sliding drop of dew on the grass is enough—to fill you with faith. The newborn sprout breaking through the earth is enough—to fill you with faith. There is no shortage of supports for faith. If there is a lack, it is in your capacity for wonder. And man’s greatest stupidity is that he becomes ‘knowledgeable.’ The more ‘knowing’ he becomes, the more wonder dies. Then he knows everything. Ask him anything—he has an answer. Find some places where you become answerless. From there faith will come. Love is such a place—from where faith wells up. For love does not fit into knowledge. Love has not been known till today. People have lived it, people have experienced it; but it has not been known. No one has even been able to define what love is. If your life is nothing but mathematics, then where is rest?—there is only toil. And…

Question: DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOU? DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? WHO IS GOD? No, religion need not be based on belief. Religion has to be based on experience -- not on fear but on love; not on negation of life but on affirmation of life. Religion has not to be a belief -- it has to be a knowing, an experiencing. That's why I say 'belief' is a dirty word here. 'Knowing', 'loving', 'being' -- these are real words. And, belief hinders them: you cannot know if you believe, you cannot love if you believe, you cannot see if you believe. And remember: I am not saying that you have to disbelieve, because disbelief is again belief. The atheist and the theist are not different -- they are in the same boat, they are fellow-travellers.

Osho, God does not appear to me anywhere. What should I do?

Anand! Open your eyes. You are trying to see with your eyes shut, trying to hear with your ears closed, with the doors of the heart barred—then it is impossible to see God. When the eye is open, there is light. The very opening of the eye is light. Keep the eye closed and even if not one but a thousand suns were to rise, there will still be darkness, a moonless night. But this is not only your mistake; it is almost everyone’s. When God does not appear, people conclude: perhaps there is no God—hence He is not seen. Rarely does someone wonder: perhaps my eyes are closed—hence I do not see. Those rare ones, sooner or later, become able to see the Divine. So the first and the last sutra is this: drop the search for God; learn the alchemy of opening your eyes. Eyes open in two…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? I do not believe in believing. That has to be understood first. Nobody asks me, "Do you believe in the sun? Do you believe in the moon?" Nobody asks me that question. Millions of people I have met, and for thirty years continuously I have answered thousands of questions. Nobody asks me, "Do you believe in the roseflower?" There is no need. You can see: the roseflower is there or it is not there. Only fictions, not facts, have to be believed. God is the greatest fiction that man has created. Hence you have to believe in him. And why does man have to create this fiction of God? There must be some inner necessity. I don't have that necessity so there is no question. But let me explain to you why people have believed in God.