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

Try to see the delicate distinction. For example, you are hungry, then you eat—this is action. But you are not hungry, you don’t feel any hunger at all, and still you go on eating—this is activity. This eating is a kind of violence: you destroy food, you crush your teeth together and destroy food; it gives you a little release of your inner restles

are no worries, no anguish, no anxiety.

The very effort to “become” is a barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. you need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you.

Psychologists suspect that teachers are in fact politicians. Of course, not self-confident enough to go into politics—they move to the schools and there they become presidents, prime ministers, emperors. Small children—and they order them and they force them. Psychologists also suspect that teachers have an inclination toward being sadistic, they w

I am not saying that you all will become Picassos or Shakespeares, I am not saying that. A few of you will become painters, a few of you will become singers, a few of you will become musicians, a few of you dancers—but that is not the point. Each of you will become creative in your own way. You may be a cook, but there will be creativity. Or you ma

The mind should remain alive and creative, and yet should be capable of moving into silence whenever it wants to. Thats mastery. When you want to think, you can think; when you don’t want to think, you can go into non-thinking. A real

Try to make something perfect and it will remain imperfect. Do it naturally and it is always perfect. Nature is perfect; effort is imperfect. So whenever you are doing something too much, you are destroying.

Consciousness is health, self-consciousness is disease—something

Nature gives everybody energy which is creative. It becomes destructive only when it is obstructed, when no natural flow is allowed.

That is the point of transcendence—surpassing. And in surpassing, the miracle happens: you are not, and yet for the first time you are.