Celebrate Everything!

If you are sad, celebrate because you are sad. Just give it a try and you will be surprised. Start dancing because sadness is so beautiful, such a silent flower of being. Dance, enjoy, and suddenly you will feel the sadness disappearing, a distance has been created. By and by, you will forget sadness and you will be celebrating. You have transformed energy.

This is what alchemy is: transforming baser metal into higher gold. Did you know that a piece of coal and the greatest diamond in the world are just the same? In fact, coal pressed by the earth for millions of years becomes a diamond. It is just a difference of pressure; they are both carbon, both constituted of the same elements. The baser can be changed into the higher. Nothing is lacking in the baser. Only rearrangement and recomposition are needed.

Angry? Have a beautiful dance. In the beginning your dance will be angry. But it will become softer, when suddenly you will have forgotten anger. The energy has changed into dancing.


Once you know the key, your life will never be the same. You can unlock any door. And this is the master key: celebrate everything.

Abridged from The Alchemy of Yoga/OSHO Times International/wwww.osho.com