"It does not matter when you reach the ocean. The beginning is the end. The whole beauty is in the beginning, because once you have started moving, the end, falling into the ocean, is absolutely determined. The beginning was in your hands; it was your freedom, hence the beauty of the beginning.

"Falling into the ocean will be tremendously ecstatic, but it is not in your hands. What was in your hands was the beginning, and you gathered courage; you jumped out of a static, dead situation into a living being…alive, singing and dancing.

"Who cares when the ocean comes? The beginning is enough, more than enough – because falling into the ocean is bound to happen.

"You have started flowing. Rejoice in it. Don't think of tomorrow. Today is enough unto itself, a blessing, a benediction. And you are the ocean – what more are you going to gain when you fall into the ocean? It is simply the realization that the water, whether in a dewdrop or in the biggest ocean, is of the same nature; every dewdrop contains oceans in it, and all the oceans are made only of dewdrops.

"So the real seeker is not concerned about the goal. The real seeker is concerned about the right beginning, and you are blessed because the right beginning has happened.

Osho,
You are against seriousness. You have laughed about everything, including gods, godmen and scriptures. How come you think that people should take you and your teaching seriously?

"Who has told you that I expect people to take me and my teachings seriously? I want to be understood joyously, not seriously. I want to be taken playfully, not seriously – not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter.

"Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it – because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death.

"I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me – but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching."