"Just be ordinary! It is beautiful and so relaxing. It is the most wondrous experience just to be nobody, not desiring to be somewhere else, not even thinking of the tomorrow.

"Can't you see this very moment the bliss that is descending upon you?

"Can't you feel the silence that is beating in your very heart?

"It is here – and not unique, available to all. And it is not that you have to wait for an eternity, don't find excuses. I am not going to let you go without experiencing it. It is not something to be given to you; you have it already. Just go on relaxing, sleeping.

"Sometimes I feel like sleeping; I can manage both to sleep and talk. Perhaps a few times I fall asleep and just out of habit I go on talking – you can ask Vivek. Once in a while when she comes to wake me up, she cannot believe it – I am addressing you! But the trouble for the poor girl is, when I speak in my sleep I speak my mother tongue. But I have promised her next time I will remember to speak in English.

"Life in all its dimensions – awake or asleep – makes no difference to your enlightenment. So don't find any excuse. These are excuses: that it happens only in an eternity, how can it happen to you? It happens only to unique people, how can it happen to you? I am trying my best to destroy these tricks of the mind, so that nobody who is a sannyasin leaves this world unenlightened!

Osho,
Recently you said that most people who become enlightened die shortly afterwards. What I want to know is how you have managed to stay with us so long? I am so grateful.

"Really I should be grateful to you. It is love for you, and the love that you go on pouring upon me that has helped me to remain with you. Love is a spiritual nourishment.

"Those who died after their enlightenment died because they thought they had found it and now there was no reason to live. When I found it, I said to myself, 'Now there is every reason to live.' Before finding, there was no reason; I could have died easily."