When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

Osho
Also known as: Chandra Mohan Jain, Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation.

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Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things — taking a bath; take it totally, forget the whole world; sitting, sit; walking, walk, above all don’t wobble; sit under the shower and let the whole existence fall on you. Be merged with those beautiful drops of water falling on you. Small things: cleaning the house, preparing food, washing clothes, going for a morning walk — do them totally, then there is no need for any meditation.

I am not against rules, but the rules should arise out of your understanding. They should not be imposed from the outside. I am not against discipline! but discipline should not be slavery. All true discipline is self-discipline. And self-discipline is never against freedom — in fact, it is the ladder to freedom. Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it. Let your own awareness decide your lifestyle, life pattern. Don’t allow anybody else to decide it. That is a sin, to allow anybody else to decide it. Why is it a sin? Because you will never be in your life. It will remain superficial, it will be hypocrisy.

ذات يوم لن تستيقظ , سيقرع بائع الجرائد بابك , ستكون زوجتك تشخر , لكنك لن تكون موجودا . ذات يوم سيأتي الموت . فاضحك قبل أن يباغتك اضحك مادمت تمتلك فرصة للضحك ثم انظر إلى كل هذه السخافات من حولك : تتوالى الأيام متشابهه . تقوم بالعمل نفسه مرارا وتكرارا , طيلة حياتك . تلبس خفك وتسرع إلى الحمام – لماذا ؟ لتقوم بالعمل نفسه غدا ؟