The moment you are born, you are already dying. Between the first breath and the last, there is only a gap—a beautiful, mysterious gap. And in that gap, you have a choice. You can either live in the gaps between your fears, or you can live in the fire of the unknown.
Look at how you have been taught to live. You have been taught to build a fortress. You seek the secure job, the predictable relationship, the unchanging beliefs. You want a tomorrow that looks exactly like today, only slightly more comfortable. You call this safety. Osho calls it a slow, deliberate suicide. living dangerously osho
The paradox is this: the person who tries to protect his life loses it. He becomes a psychological corpse, dressed in respectable clothes. But the person who risks his life—who lives on the edge, who drinks deeply from the moment—finds that death has no power over him. Because he was never not dying. And he was never not reborn. The moment you are born, you are already dying