My whole vision is of a human being,
totally alive, intensely alive,
enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with
grace, with gratitude towards existence. And that's what loving
yourself means. It means that you have thrown all the garbage of
religious rejection, repression. You have dropped all the ideals that
they have given to you; you are now standing on your own as if you are
Adam and Eve. No priest has been there before, no religion has been
there before; you are uncorrupted, unspoiled, clean.
Start like Adam and Eve -- just think of the idea!
Why bother about the past? Forget about it. You are the first man.
Start living as if you don't know how to live. Nobody is there to
teach you,
this, how to do that. You are just left alone on an island. Everything
is available: Intelligence is within you, instinct is within you,
intellect is within you, intuition is within you. Now start moving.
Yes, perhaps you may commit a few mistakes -- there is no wrong in it,
that's how one learns. Perhaps a few times you may fall -- nothing to
be worried about. You can get up again; and next time you will be
walking more carefully, more alert, so you have gained something out
of that fall. Out of each mistake, each error, you are constantly
gaining something.
Errors are valuable. Mistakes are immensely necessary. If you are
somehow protected from committing mistakes and errors, you will never
grow, you will never learn a thing, you will never mature.
So behave as if you are the first here. The whole world is available
to you to explore. And in exploring it you will be surprised that
simultaneously your inner world is being explored too, because as you
explore the outer world your insight becomes deeper, your intelligence
becomes sharper, your awareness becomes keener. And a perfectly
fulfilled man is one who explores both the outer and the inner, and
who, at the moment of death, can have a smile on his face: he lived
totally, he is happy that he lived totally, he burned his life's
candle from both ends together.
Osho
enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with
grace, with gratitude towards existence. And that's what loving
yourself means. It means that you have thrown all the garbage of
religious rejection, repression. You have dropped all the ideals that
they have given to you; you are now standing on your own as if you are
Adam and Eve. No priest has been there before, no religion has been
there before; you are uncorrupted, unspoiled, clean.
Start like Adam and Eve -- just think of the idea!
Why bother about the past? Forget about it. You are the first man.
Start living as if you don't know how to live. Nobody is there to
teach you,
this, how to do that. You are just left alone on an island. Everything
is available: Intelligence is within you, instinct is within you,
intellect is within you, intuition is within you. Now start moving.
Yes, perhaps you may commit a few mistakes -- there is no wrong in it,
that's how one learns. Perhaps a few times you may fall -- nothing to
be worried about. You can get up again; and next time you will be
walking more carefully, more alert, so you have gained something out
of that fall. Out of each mistake, each error, you are constantly
gaining something.
Errors are valuable. Mistakes are immensely necessary. If you are
somehow protected from committing mistakes and errors, you will never
grow, you will never learn a thing, you will never mature.
So behave as if you are the first here. The whole world is available
to you to explore. And in exploring it you will be surprised that
simultaneously your inner world is being explored too, because as you
explore the outer world your insight becomes deeper, your intelligence
becomes sharper, your awareness becomes keener. And a perfectly
fulfilled man is one who explores both the outer and the inner, and
who, at the moment of death, can have a smile on his face: he lived
totally, he is happy that he lived totally, he burned his life's
candle from both ends together.
Osho
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