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

It is because of this factor that Sigmund Freud chose the couch for the patient. It is not for the comfort of the patient, it is a strategy. Once the patient is horizontal he starts being irresponsible.

If humanity becomes too logical, then humanity disappears;

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 devil never

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.

Twenty-four hours, round the clock, you go on talking and talking and talking. This is like smoking, because the phenomenon is the same: the mouth needs movement. And the mouth is the basic activity because that is the first activity you started in your life.

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.

Self-consciousness is always afraid, always trembling. And you always need support from others–somebody to appreciate you, somebody to clap; somebody to say how beautiful you are or how intelligent.

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.