Osho : ONLY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE SOMEWHERE, SOMEBODY, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure. He is always successful. Just like me.

ONLY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE SOMEWHERE, SOMEBODY, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure. He is always successful. Just like me. 

From my very childhood, my parents, my well-wishers, my neighbors, my teachers, everybody was saying that, "You are going to be utterly worthless, a good-for-nothing." I said, "If that is my destiny, I am perfectly happy. Why should I try to be somebody else? Utterly useless? -- perfectly good! Good for nothing? I don't see anything wrong in it."

And they would say, "Can't you ever talk reasonably?"

I said, "It is just a question of reason. WHATEVER IS GOING TO HAPPEN, I AM GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL... because I have not made a criterion that this has to happen, only then will I be successful. Just vice-versa: I am successful. Whatever happens, that does not matter; my successfulness is certain...." 

There is no failure in life. IT ALL DEPENDS HOW YOU TAKE THINGS. If you are desiring too much -- you want to reach too high, and you cannot -- then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is a moment-to-moment victory.

Osho

Beyond Enlightenment
Chapter 20
Let go... the cure for the disease of becoming

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