You tell me: I am totally upset!

That’s good! So I am succeeding! I want you to be completely uprooted, upset, disturbed. I want to create a chaos in you, because only out of chaos are stars born.

You ask me: How can you talk nonsense?

What else? Sense cannot be talked. Only nonsense is left. So I don’t take it as a criticism – it is a compliment! Many, many thanks to you. At least you are talking some sense.

You say: My mind is having a fit and so is my heart. What to do?

I don’t think anything can be done now. It is too late. You can’t go back – I will haunt you! – You can only go ahead.

Drop all these ideas that you are carrying within yourself.

We are here for transcendence.

And don’t take jokes seriously! In fact, don’t take anything seriously. You miss the point if you start taking things seriously. Even scriptures have to be taken non seriously, only then you can understand.

Understanding has to be with a deep, relaxed, non-serious, playful attitude.

When you become serious, you become tense.

When you become serious you become closed.

When you are playful many things can happen because in playfulness is creativity.

In playfulness you can innovate.

by Osho