The Society

"The society has done something wrong to man - for certain reasons.  It wants you to be slaves, it wants you to be always afraid, it wants you to be always greedy, it wants you to be always ambitious, it wants you to be always competitive.  It wants you to be unloving, it wants you to be full of anger and hatred, it wants you to remain weak, imitative - carbon copies.  It does not want you to become original Buddha's, original Krishna's or Christs - no.  That's why your intelligence has been destroyed.  Meditation is needed only to undo what the society has done.  Meditation is negative: it simply negates the damage, it destroys the illness.  And once the illness has gone, your well-being asserts itself on its own accord." - Osho

"So many people within this society are spiritually ill, if you spend enough time with the masses, you will become ill yourself.  It is best to get away from the masses and be in meditation.  Find the peace within yourself and only surround yourself with a small group of others who are spiritually healthy themselves and not ill.  It is easy for an ill person to make a healthy person ill but it is not easy for a healthy person to make a ill person healthy." - Freddie Lee