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 "Though Osho often referred to god in his earlier talks, he instructed that wherever possible in a new edition of his books, the word should be replaced with godliness, exis-tence or another phrase more in accord with changes in the way he spoke [...] after 1984 [...]" Osho Times, Jan. 2006: 'Thirty Years of Osho International Publishing.'
 "I teach you the god of the mystics."
"There is an ancient tradition which says that god is a codeword: G stands for That; O stands for Which; D stands for Is ~ That Which Is."
'Osho ~ you say that 'God' is within me. I realize I am looking inside for some concept I got from the outside '
"That kind of 'God' you will never find within you. You will have to drop all the concepts that have been given to you from the outside, because 'God' is not a person. No picture of 'God' exists, no statue is possible. 'God' is an experien-ce! If you have the idea of a 'God' which your parents and your society have given to you, you will go inside with that idea and that idea will be the hindrance ~ it will not allow you to see that which is. And 'God' ís that which is.
It needs no concepts to see; concepts blind you. Drop all concepts. If you really want to go in, go as an agnostic. This word is beautiful.
You must have heard the word 'gnostic'. 'Gnostic' means one who knows ~ gnosis means knowledge. 'Agnostic' means one who knows not. 'Agnostic' means one who knows only one thing: that he knows not. Be an agnostic ~ that is the beginning of real religion.
Don't believe, don't disbelieve."
"Unless you drop all ideologies, all philosophies, all religions, all systems of thought ~ and go inside empty, with nothing in your hand, with no idea ..... how can you have an idea of 'God'? You have not known him ..... Just go, with a great desire to know, but with no idea of know-ledge, with intensity to know, with a passionate love to know what is there, but don't carry any ideas given to you by others. Drop them outside. That is the greatest barrier for the seeker on the path of truth."
"In fact there is no 'God' but only godliness. There is no person like God anywhere. Drop all childish attitudes, don't go on searching for a father.
Divineness is, god is not. When I say divineness is, I mean: whatsoever is, is full of god. The green of the trees, and the red and the golden ~ all is divine. This crow crying, and a bird on the wing and a child giggling, and a dog barking ~ all is divine. Nothing else exists."
"God is not a person but only a presence. And when I say presence, be very attentive, because you can go on listening according to your own conditioning. You can even make presence something objective ~ then you have again fallen into the same trap.
'God' is a presence at the innermost core of your being: it is your own presence. It is not a meeting with somebody else."
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