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On Left: 'Freedom', A spiritoon posted on blogspot back in July 2007. Click the picture to visit the blog



With Freedom Comes Responsibility - Osho

"When I say to you that you are free, I mean that you are responsible. You cannot throw responsibility on anybody else, you are alone. And whatsoever you do, it is your doing. You cannot say that somebody else forced you to do it -- because you are free; nobody can force you! Because you are free, it is your decision to do something or not to do something.

With freedom comes responsibility. Freedom is responsibility. But the mind is very cunning, the mind interprets in its own way: it always goes on listening to that which it wants to listen to. It goes on interpreting things in its own way. The mind never tries to understand what really is the truth. It has taken that decision already.

So when I say ’freedom’, I mean be responsible. The more responsible you become, the more free you become; or, the more free you become, the more responsibility comes on you. Then you have to be very alert to what you are doing, what you are saying. Even about your small unconscious gestures you have to be very alert -- because there is nobody else to control you, it is only you. When I say to you that you are free, I mean that you are a God. It is not licence, it is tremendous discipline! "

Spiritoons are created with immense Love and with inspirations from Osho and reflects his Vision for a New Way of Living based in "Awareness" and the "Here & Now" - to live the life totally moment-to-moment without clinging to the comfortable past or the illusory future." ~OSHO