“Society has managed it so that you will never think about your own potential. The whole misery is that you are not being yourself. Just be yourself, and then there is no misery and no competition and no botheration that others have more, that you don’t have more.

    “If you would like the grass to be greener there is no need to look at the other side of the fence; you can make the grass greener on your side of the fence. It is such a simple thing to make the grass greener. But you are just looking everywhere else, and all the lawns are looking so beautiful – except yours.

    “Man has to be rooted in his own potential, whatever it is, and nobody should give him directions, guidance. They should help him, wherever he is going, whatever he is becoming. The world will be so contented that you cannot believe it.

    “I have never felt any discontent, even from my childhood, for the simple reason that I never allowed anybody to distract me from what I was doing or what I was trying to be. That helped me immensely. It was difficult, and the difficulties went on growing, and now the whole world is against me. But it does not disturb me. I am perfectly happy, perfectly content. I can’t think that I could have been otherwise. In any other position I would have been miserable.

    “I don’t have a home, I don’t have a place to live, I don’t have any money. Still, I have something that gives me absolute contentment. I have lived according to my potential, and even if death comes it will not upset me. I have lived my way. The whole world may be against me – it does not upset me. People get upset even if one person is against them. They get so upset; I cannot even understand it….

    “The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot. That was not the intention of nature, to make a robot of you. So because you are not what you were meant to be, what you were destined to be, you are constantly looking: ‘What is missing? Perhaps better furniture, better curtains, a better house, a better husband, a better wife, a better job…’ Your whole life you are trying and rushing from one place to another. But the society has distracted you from the very beginning.

    “My effort is to bring you back to yourself, and you will suddenly find all that discontent has disappeared. There is no need to be more – you are enough. Everybody is enough.”

- Osho