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OSHO was well ahead of his time. In chapter 5 he explores duality. When cannot have happiness without sadness, life without death, heaven without hell. Battling against one, leads to constant strife. Accepting duality as a natural part of life is the key to contentment.

Wow! I didn’t want to be a disciple. I felt like everyone elevated him for some benign reason. The man was wise and his ability to interweave Eastern and Western theological ideas to arrive at a coherent philosophy of life is masterful.

The present is the eternity. However, we create eternal hells by living in the past and we imagine heavens through nonexistent futures. Live now, embrace intuition, do you.

We’ve confined ourselves by the constructs of the world. To be free, we must let go and embrace our inner child. Become one within ourselves, wishing the world. There is no loneliness in being alone. However, there is loneliness in a crowd of individuals who search for their soul on the outside.