Courage: the Joy of Living Dangerously - Osho  ## Metadata - Author: **Osho** - Full Title: Courage: the Joy of Living Dangerously - Category: #books - Tags: #love #metaphysical #spirituality #wisdom ## Highlights - There are two possibilities. Either you close your eyes and become dogmatic, become a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan … then you become like an ostrich. It doesn’t change life; it simply closes your eyes. It simply makes you stupid, it simply makes you unintelligent. In your unintelligence you feel secure—all idiots feel secure. In fact, only idiots feel secure. A really alive man will always feel insecure. What security can there be? (Page 5) - There are two possibilities. Either you close your eyes and become dogmatic, become a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan … then you become like an ostrich. It doesn’t change life; it simply closes your eyes. It simply makes you stupid, it simply makes you unintelligent. In your unintelligence you feel secure—all idiots feel secure. In fact, only idiots feel secure. A really alive man will always feel insecure. What security can there be? (Page 5) - It is your fear that makes you a slave—it is your fear (Page 13) - And remember, I am not guaranteeing you that it will always lead you to the right. Many times it will take you to the wrong, because to come to the right door one has to knock first on many wrong doors (Page 18) - TRUTH IS AN EXPERIENCE, NOT A BELIEF. Truth never comes by studying about it; truth has to be encountered, truth has to be faced. The person who studies about love is like the person who studies about the Himalayas by looking at the map of the mountains. The map is not the mountain! And if you start believing in the map, you will go on missing the mountain. If you become too much obsessed with the map, the mountain may be there just in front of you, but still you will not be able to see it. (Page 25) - Meditation takes you into the unknown, the uncharted. Meditation takes you slowly, slowly into a kind of dissolution where the observer and the observed become one (Page 27) - Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced (Page 30) - With explanations he feels that now the territory is familiar; now he knows the geography, now he can move with the map and the guidebook and the timetable. He is never ready to move in an unknown territory, uncharted, without a map, without a guide. But life is like that, and no map is possible because life goes on changing. Every moment it is now. There is nothing old under the sun, I say to you: everything is new. It is a tremendous dynamism, an absolute movement. Only change is permanent, only change never changes (Page 30) - Everybody has to pass through a dark night before he reaches the sunrise. (Page 33) - Tags: #poetry #metaphysical - Fear is nothing but absence of love. Do something with love, forget about fear. If you love well, fear disappears (Page 64) - When you fall in love everything looks beautiful, because in those moments you don’t put conditions. Two persons move near each other unconditionally. Once they have settled, once they have started taking each other for granted, then conditions are being imposed: “You should be like this, you should behave like that, only then will I love”—as if love is a bargain (Page 67) - Love is not a relationship. Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love—but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love (Page 75) - Even husbands and wives who have lived together for many years may be just acquaintances. They may not have known each other. And the more you live with someone the more you forget completely that the centers have remained unknown (Page 77) - Habits die hard. So many years of living in a false personality imposed by people whom you loved, whom you respected … and they were not intentionally doing anything bad to (Page 97) - Habits die hard. So many years of living in a false personality imposed by people whom you loved, whom you respected … and they were not intentionally doing anything bad to you (Page 97) - All meditative techniques are a help to destroy the false (Page 99) - To live dangerously means to live (Page 117) - Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity. (Page 117) - Tags: #wisdom #antifragile #favorite - There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably—they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live—they choose to live dangerously, because life thrives only when there is risk. (Page 117) - Tags: #favorite - To live dangerously means to live. If you don’t live dangerously, you don’t live. Living flowers only in danger. Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity (Page 117) - There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably—they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live— (Page 117) - There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably—they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live—they choose to live dangerously, because life thrives only when there is risk (Page 117) - Love, but don’t think that tomorrow the woman will be available to you. Don’t expect. Don’t reduce the woman into a wife. Then you are living dangerously. (Page 120)