Quotes from Osho

Love and Ego Cannot Go Together

"Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at all. They cannot keep company. They are like darkness and light: if light is there darkness cannot be. Darkness can only be if light is not there. If love is not there the ego can be; if love is there the ego cannot be. And vice versa, if ego is dropped, love arrives from all the directions. It simply starts pouring in you from everywhere."

The Ego Feeds off Your Desire to Be Something Else

"Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful the ego is absorbing energy. "Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will." When you have dropped all the tension about the future "that I should become this and I should become that " the ego evaporates.

The Ego Exists Through Friction

"The ego exists through friction. Have an ideal, and you will become an egoist. The idealist is an egoist. Have a bigger ideal, and you will be a bigger egoist. The greater the ideal, the greater the ego, because the greater is the friction. The ego is created by friction between the real and the ideal.