"It may look like a great difference to the person who is asleep, but to the awakened there is no difference at all. Just a little shaking, shocking, and the asleep one will be awake and they both can laugh at the whole stupid game of master and disciple, of messiah, of the savior and the saved. Except laughter there will be nothing, because they will know that they are both exactly the same. And because these names – prophet, messiah, incarnation of God – have been used in the past to exploit people, to create bondage for their spirits, for their psyches, these names have divided people into different religions and the ultimate result was thousands of wars. Five thousand wars in three thousand years…crusades in the name of God, people killing thousands of other people, burning people alive in the name of God, and with the authority that they are the representative of the messiah or the prophet or the successor.

"I don't want to be in this company of criminals. I want simply to be an ordinary human being – that's what I am."

Do you think that you have a big power?

"I don't have any power. I have love – big love – but love knows no power. Power is desired by those who are incapable of love. Only the loveless become politicians, power hungry. They think that if they have power over people perhaps their desire for love will be fulfilled. It is never fulfilled. No politician dies contented. It is impossible – he has gone wrong from the very beginning. The path of power leads farther away from yourself, and from love. The path of love brings you closer, home to yourself

"I have immense love to give, inexhaustible love to give, but no power to order or command or tell somebody to be this, be that. I don't have any Ten Commandments."

Osho,
Why have you said that you are a guest here?
Do you plan to leave, to travel?

"No. I have always been a guest wherever I was, because I belong to the whole universe. So anywhere I am, that particular place is only a guesthouse. I am not planning to leave – I never plan."