Below is an excerpt from Osho’s book The Art of Dying, which is so poetic and so precise that I translated it with great pleasure. The longer I live, the more I discover the truth and the beauty of what he says. Based on everything I know from my personal experience and from spiritual teachings […]
Below is an excerpt from a talk by Osho. In it, he answers a question from a man who says that he moves between anger and sadness and doesn’t know whether he should express anger or let it explode inside him. Osho answers this question thus: “Anger and sadness are both the same. Sadness is […]
This is a discourse by Osho that presents the idea of conscious experiencing—especially regarding painful emotions and feelings. Here, the focus is on sadness. “Sadness can become a very enriching experience. You have to work on it. It is easy to escape from your sadness—and all relationships are usually escapes; one just goes on avoiding […]
“Heaven is not reached with dry eyes.” Thomas Fuller For some of us, there exists a belief that crying is a manifestation of weakness. According to psychotherapy, however, exactly the opposite is true—sadness is a part of our psychic wholeness, and being able to show our pain is a manifestation of strength, not weakness. As […]
The goal of psychotherapy can be described in many ways. One of them is helping the client learn how to become their own therapist. In this sense, every successful psychotherapeutic process includes an element of learning. That’s why I would like to share an important concept that can help both clients and therapists: the distinction […]
It is often said that crying helps us feel better. However, this does not apply to crying born of a secondary feeling—the so-called self-pity. While the primary form of this emotion relates to a feeling of deep pain and grief caused by loss, its pseudo-version manifests differently. Instead of feeling the depth of the pain, […]
I share another very insightful and beautiful text from Osho on the subject of sadness and what it means to celebrate the wholeness of life, including the sadness in it. “Even about misery you can take an attitude of celebration. For example: you are sad – don’t get identified with sadness. Become a witness and […]
