Osho Quotes on Present Moment
- Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.
- You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself -- an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.
- Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The
more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you
are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and
nowhere else. Then you are awake.
- When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.
- This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to
the present moment, being somewhere else.
- God is not in heaven -- God is in the present moment. If
you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
- The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.
- Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly
don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is
such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift
that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for
you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity
- I teach you that there is no other aim than to live
with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea
of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end,
any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which
is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the
past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the
past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only
reality.
- I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move
into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence to
your memory anymore. Don't move into the future because that is only
imagination. Just remain here, and you will be surprised. If you are just
now here, all thoughts disappear, because all thoughts are either of the
past or of the future. No thought is of the present. The present is so
pure, so clean, so clear, just an opening into the cosmos. This is Zen,
and this is the key to enter into life eternal. The very feel of life
eternal takes all tensions, anxieties of old age, of sickness, of death,
and birth away from you.
- Each moment life is new and you have to respond from
your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And
you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present
awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your
life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the
mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical
is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.
- Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the
moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If
you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can
happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate,
transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware,
many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not
possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is
unawareness.
- Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now -- and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.
- The science of meditation: it brings you to the
present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it
disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it
disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought
-- there is no past, no future, there is only the present -- in that state
of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is
there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more
a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity. Humanity is in a state
of deep sleep.
- My sannyasin has to be utterly alive alive,
spontaneous, responsive to the moment. My sannyasin has to forget both the
past and the future, because one is no more and the other is not yet. Then
you are left only with this moment and the rain falling on the trees, and
the sounds... and you and me.... And then there is blessing. It is
impossible to be miserable in the present. People are always miserable
because of the past or the future. People are worried because they have
done something in the past or something has been done to them, or they are
worried about whether they will be able to do something right in the
future or not. The present moment is utterly free of worry. It has a taste
of the divine... the door to god opens through it.
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