Osho
quotes on Fear
- Any conflict will create more barriers. If there is
fear and you start doing something about it, then a new fear has entered:
fear of the fear. It has become more complex. So the one thing to be done
is, if fear is there, accept it. Don`t do anything about it because doing
will not help. Anything that you do out of fear will create more fear;
anything that you do out of confusion will add more to confusion. Don`t do
anything. If fear is there note down that fear is there and accept it.
What can you do? Nothing can be done; fear is there. See, if you can just
note down the fact that fear is there, where is the fear then?
- Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart;
listen to the heart.
- The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody
may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a
thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and
fears, and none of them are valid -- because yesterday also you were full
of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are
still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any
situation.
- The greatest discovery in life, the most precious
treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness,
full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears -- there is no end to
it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be
able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your
potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.
- Mystery will control you, knowledge will make you the
controller. Mystery will possess you. You cannot possess the mysterious;
it is so vast and your hands are so small. It is so infinite, you cannot
possess it, you will have to be possessed by it -- and that is the fear.
Knowledge you can possess, it is so trivial; knowledge you can control.
This temptation of the mind to reduce every wonder, every mystery, to a
question, is basically fear-oriented. We are afraid, afraid of the
tremendousness of life, of this incredible existence. We are afraid. Out
of fear we create some small knowledge around ourselves as a protection,
as an armor, as a defense.
- What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor
is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The
fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically
completely open and vulnerable.
- A mature person should disconnect himself from anything
that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all
your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in
reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has
to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I
cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.
- A man living out of fear is always trembling inside. He
is continuously on the point of going insane, because life is big, and if
you are continuously in fear... And there is every kind of fear. You can
make a big list, and you will be surprised how many fears are there -- and
still you are alive! There are infections all around, diseases, dangers,
kidnaping, terrorists... and such a small life. And finally there is
death, which you cannot avoid. Your whole life will become dark. Drop the
fear! The fear was taken up by you in your childhood unconsciously; now
consciously drop it and be mature. And then life can be a light which goes
on deepening as you go on growing.
- So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into
your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear,
you have created it. It was needed at one time -- now it is no longer
needed. A simple understanding that it is no longer needed... now it is a
barrier, a hindrance, a burden. If you find something truthful, it will
have its own validity. But in the armor you will not find anything that
has any connection with truth. The whole armor is made of fear -- layers
and layers of fear.
- Don`t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to
overpower you. Love comes from the center, fear always comes from the
periphery; don`t allow this periphery to be dominant. And what have you
got to lose? Even if there is no rebirth -- there is rebirth -- but I say
even if there is no rebirth and you simply die, what have you got to lose?
What will be lost?
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