One cannot improve upon oneself. And I am not saying that improvement does not happen, it does, but remember -You cannot improve beyond who you are- It is simply impossible. When you stop attempting to improve upon yourself, when acceptance of yourself takes place, in that relaxation, life improves you. In that relaxation, life starts caressing you, life starts flowing through you.

Nobody else in humanity has ever been like you before and nobody else ever will be like you; you are simply unique, incomparable. Accept this, love this, celebrate this, and in that very celebration, you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. Love is a phenomenon only possible to experience, through a deep acceptance of oneself, the other and the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the fertile soil in which the plants bloom.

You are here because this existance needs you as you are, OTHERWISE, sombody else woudl have been here. Existance would have not helped you to be here, right in the exact moment and place of your life in which you are right now. Existance would not have created you.

You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, just as you are. If god wanted a Buddha, he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha, that's all, that was enough. Since then, he has not created another Buddha again, or another Christ, he has created you instead. Just think of the respect that the universe has given to you! you have been chosen... not the Buddha, not the Christ, not the Krshna.

You will be needed more, that's why. You fit more in the world of here and now, you are a son of the times as they are now. They contributed with their fragrances to build the world of their times. Now you have to contribute your fragrance.

But the moralists, the puritans, the priests, they go on teaching you, they go on driving you crazy, they tell the rose: "become a lotus!", then they tell the lotus: "what are you doing here? you have to become something else" they drive the whole garden crazy, everything starts dying because nobody can ever anybody else, that is simply not possible.

That's what has happened to humanity. Everybody is pretending, authenticity is lost, truth is lost. Everybody is trying to show you that thay are something else. Just look at your self: you are pretending to be somebody else -but you can be only yourself, there's no other way, there has never been, there is no possiblility that you can ever be anybody else. You shall remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or condemn it and wither away.

OSHO