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Osho Quotes on God

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God is not a being to be believed in, but the very essence of existence—an ever-flowing isness that awakens within through awareness and silence.

Krishna embodies the divine precisely because he dances freely between the realms of morality and spontaneity, revealing that true wisdom lies in responding to each moment without attachment to fixed ideals.

Beings and God are but two sides of the same coin, separated only by the limitations of human intellect and language; in essence, there is only the One.

God's first lesson is to let go; only in the emptiness of an open hand can the divine be grasped.

When the sense of 'I am the doer' dissolves, you realize that it is God alone who acts through you, for the personal doer is merely an illusion of the ego.

God is the impersonal, all-pervading energy that flows through everything, showing no favoritism, yet inviting the egoless heart to recognize its grace.

God is not found in the external world, but within the depths of your own awareness; to discover Him, you must first save yourself through self-inquiry and meditation.

As humanity shifted from a life of shared existence to one of ownership and hierarchy, we transformed the divine from the essence of nature into a distant, judgmental father, reflecting our own need for control.

God is not a destination to be reached; He is the living presence within you, waiting to be recognized in the silence of your own awareness.

Drop the abstract idea of God and immerse yourself in genuine love; it is through love that the divine reveals itself and true thirst awakens.

God cannot be proven because the divine is not an object to be displayed; it is the formless depth of your own inner experience, known only in the silence of your being.

Drop every relation and craving; in becoming relationless, you will find that God is already the simplest truth waiting to be revealed.

Drop belief and embrace the unknown; it is only through direct experience and love that you will discover the unwavering support of existence.

Krishna is not a different God; he is the formless Supreme fully revealed, while we remain veiled in layers that obscure the same divine light within us.

The mind's desire for fictions and hopes is not a natural aspect of existence, but a product of cultural conditioning; true awareness flourishes only in the present moment, free from the illusions of the past and future.

Forget belief and begin with where you are; in silent awareness, you encounter your own essence, beyond all labels.

God is not a belief to be accepted; it is the immediate knowing that arises from direct experience, free from the confines of ideology.

A true Master is not a destination but a window to the divine; trust him, but do not cling to the window—go through it to experience the sky.

Real religion is not about belief; it is about direct knowing—an immediate awareness where 'God' becomes a lived reality, not a borrowed theory.

Bhagwan' is not a person to be worshipped, but the very essence of godliness that resides within and permeates all existence.

You are not playing a game for God; you are the divine playing hide-and-seek with your own consciousness, and the moment you choose to stop, the game ends.

Attaining God is not the fulfillment of a goal, but the realization that life itself is goalless, flowing effortlessly like the wind, rivers, and clouds.

God is not something to be found; He is the ever-present reality obscured only by our wandering minds. Enlightenment is the cessation of search, revealing the obviousness of what has always been.

The seeker and the sought are one; God is your own inner being, and it is only through the futility of seeking that you will turn your awareness inward to discover this truth.