God & science

God is not a necessity in this world. Scientific laws are a necessity--without them the world cannot be. God is not a necessity that way. Without him the world can be, but it will be worthless. Without him you can exist, but your existence will be just a vegetable existence. Without him you can vegetate, you cannot be really alive. God is not a necessity--you can be there, but your being there will not be of any meaning, it will not carry any meaning at all. It will have no poetry, it will have no song, it will have no dance to it, it will not be a mystery. It may be an arithmetic, it may be a business, but it cannot be a love affair. Without God all that is beautiful disappeares, because the beautiful comes only as an overflowing--it is a luxury...And I tell you that God is the most luxurious thing in the world. God is not necessary--you can live without him, you can live very well, but you will miss something, you will feel an emptiness in the heart. You will be more like a wound than an alive force, you will suffer, there cannot be any ecstasy in your life.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Solitariness

Solitariness has a healing effect, it is a healing force. Whenever you feel that you are getting messed up, don't try to solve it there. Move away from society for a few days, for at least three weeks, and just remain silent, just watching yourself, and you will have a tremendous force available which heals. Hence, in the East, many people have moved to the mountains, to the forests, somewhere alone, somewhere where there is nobody else to be bothered with. Only oneself...so one can feel oneself directly, and you can see what is happening within... So you need not throw your problems on others, you need not throw your diseases on others--you simply move alone, suffer them in silence, watch them. Just sit by the bank of the river of your mind. Things settle! When things settle you have a clarity, a perception. Then move back into the world--if you feel like it. That too is not necessary, that too should not be an obsession. Nothing should be an obsession, neither the world nor the mountain. Whatsoever you feel is natural, whatsoever you feel is good and heals you, whatsoever you feel you are whole in, not divided--that is the path. The montain is crossed, you have reached the path--now follow it, now follow into it.

Osho: From meditation to meditation