Attribuita a Osho
«If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. Love is not about possession; love is about appreciation.»
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Non si trova nell'opera di Osho
Probably the most widely shared line under his name on social media, but it has not been located in the published transcripts consulted or in the Osho International Foundation's talk archive; its wording looks like a modern paraphrase.
Fonte: OSHO International Foundation, web oficial (biblioteca de charlas, meditaciones y catálogo).
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Parole verificate di Osho
«Never Born – Never Died. Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990»
Epitafio de su samadhi en la casa Lao Tzu, Pune; texto dictado por él semanas antes de morir
«Any religion which considers life meaningless and full of misery and teaches the hatred of life, is not a true religion. Religion is an art that shows how to enjoy life.»
Discurso en la Segunda Conferencia Hindú Mundial, Patna, 1969; recogido en Joshi, The Awakened One (1982), p. 88
«Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.»
Primero de sus «diez mandamientos», respuesta a un corresponsal de los años sesenta; citado en Goldman (2004), pp. 128–129