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

But in a self-conscious man something has gone wrong. He takes in but he never gives out. He goes on accumulating and he has become incapable of sharing. He goes on making boundaries around himself so nobody can trespass. He goes on putting signboards around his being: “No Trespassing Allowed.” By and by he becomes a grave, a dead being—because lif

To be self-conscious is to be unconscious. This paradox has to be understood: to be self-conscious is to be unconscious and to be unselfconscious—or to be self-unconscious-is to become conscious. And when there is no self, when this small, tiny self disappears, you attain to the real self with a capital S—call it the supreme self, the self of all.

Listening is the art for becoming passive. Buddha has emphasized listening so much, Mahavir has emphasized listening so much, Krishnamurti goes on emphasizing right listening so much. The ears are symbolic. Have you noticed? Your ears are nothing but passages, just holes, nothing else. Your ears are more feminine than your eyes; your eyes are more

Consciousness is health, self-consciousness is disease—something

So if you are frustrated, in deep misery, remember: you are creating that misery.

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

Self-consciousness is morbidity. Self-consciousness is a frozen state, blocked. It is like a dirty pool—going nowhere, just drying out, evaporating and dying. Of course, it stinks.

So it is both: no-self in the sense that it is not only yours, and the ultimate self also, because it is the self of all. You lose your tiny center and you attain to the center of existence itself. Suddenly you become infinite; suddenly you are no longer bound, you have no cage around your being, and infinite power starts flowing through you.

and he said, “The more I ponder, the more it becomes unknowable. The more I know, the more difficult it becomes to say that I know.