Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

says, “Relax!” He says, “Why are you wasting your time? Do something, man—move! Life is passing by, do something!” And all the great teachers, teachers who have awakened to the truth of life, have come to realize that an empty mind gives space to the divine to enter in you.

The ego is your death, and the death of the ego is the beginning of your real life. Real life is creativity.

When you are creative, desires disappear. When you are creative, ambitions disappear. When you are creative, you are already that which you always wanted to be.

The essence of wisdom is to act in harmony with nature.

The ego is nothing but all the tensions that you have created around yourself. And in the first place there is no need to create it—but why does man go on creating it? There must be some reason. Why does everybody go on creating the ego, the self? The real self is unknown, that’s why. And it is very difficult to live without a self, so we create a

Action is good. Activity is ill. Find the distinction within yourself: what is activity and what is action? That is the first step. The second step is to be more involved in action so that the energy moves into action; and whenever there is activity to be more watchful about it, more alert. If you are aware, activity ceases. Energy is preserved, an

The true artist disappears utterly. These other people are only technicians; I will not call them artists but technicians. I will not call them creators, I will call them only composers. Yes, to compose a poem is one thing, to create a poem is quite another. To compose poetry one needs to know language, grammar, rules of poetics. It is a game with

who can just drink the greenery of the trees, who can simply absorb it as if they are sponges—they become very creative, they become very imaginative. These are the poets, the painters, the dancers, the musicians—they absorb the universe in deep receptivity and then they pour whatsoever they have absorbed into their imagination.

If you are not allowed to smoke, chew gum and this and that, then you will talk. And that is more dangerous because you are throwing your garbage on other people’s minds.

If humanity becomes too logical, then humanity disappears;