"They cannot accept me because I am hitting at the very sources of their conditioning. I am not accepting their intellectuality as intelligence. I don't care about their Nobel Prizes, because those are all political games.

"I have no respect for any politician in the world because all politicians are mentally sick, and they are suffering from an inferiority complex.

"So if you point to me then certainly you hurt them, offend them. There is no need to do that. If they are admiring you, it is perfectly good. They expect to be admired by you in response. They cannot expect to be admired by me. Even if they admire me I am going to hit against their conditionings which are basically wrong, and which have lead humanity into a mess.

"So it is better not to mention my name.

Osho,
Gurdjieff said, 'Blessed are those who remain where they are. Blessed are those who walk on the way, and go to the end – but woe to them who stop in between.'
Osho, your world tour, especially to Europe, is a turning point for many of us. It seems that without you we've stopped in between.
Please comment.

"Gurdjieff is right, but I will not agree totally with his first statement, 'Blessed are those who remain where they are.' They are simply idiots.

"They may not be in misery, they may not be in great turmoil and anguish, but they are not blessed.

"I agree with the two other statements: 'Blessed are those who travel to the end – but woe to those who are stuck somewhere in the middle.'

"Getting stuck in the middle is a very difficult situation. You have lost the world, and your roots in it, where everybody else lives; and you have not found a new world, new roots where you wanted to live. So you are without any roots, without any nourishment. You cannot go back, because that which is left is left, that which you have known as nonsense is now nonsense – you cannot make it sensible again.

"So going back is impossible. And you are stuck in the middle because you are not finding guidance how to go ahead to the end."