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The Magic of Self-Respect
- Awakening to Your Own Awareness
- Narrated by: Osho
- Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording Audiobook
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
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"I have given you freedom, and I have given you individuality, and I have given you just a little taste of something that is always yours. You just have to claim it."
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- Pramal
- 21-08-19
Wisdom. Clarity. Superb!
Love Osho’s ability to communicate with such simplicity and playfulness - which makes it so easy to digest the wisdom he shares! Wonderful journey to listen to all of these talks!
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- Inci Baker
- 12-12-18
prepare a great journey!
unless you are ready to leave all that you think you know aside, it could cause a very pozife permanent damage ti your ego.
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- Kristina
- 23-11-21
Rambling
No structure or clear value in the content, just a download of random recordings which don’t center in any clear way around self-respect as a topic
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- mac
- 06-03-21
Not what I expected!
The narrator's style was painfully slow for me and would suit people with difficulty in sleeping.
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- Crazy for the frog
- 21-08-20
AWFUL Book don’t waste your time
Complete waste of time. What utter rubbish!
Tried to brain wash you with his complete rubbish.
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- Quasimodo
- 23-10-17
An original thinker -- beyond the mind!
This recording has a lot of childhood stories of osho's mischief which are hilarious! And it contains a lot of original thinking, which is a trademark of Osho. Responding to others calling his movement a cult, he says that modern so-called religions are all cults:
"Religion is basically rebellion against dead traditions, meaningless conventions, it is a revolution. To bring birth of a new man, a new consciousness. The cult is not concerned with the new man. The cult wants the new man never to be born."
All spiritual traditions teach surrender to either God or guru. But not Osho:
"I do not teach the ego, hence I cannot teach surrender. Because surrender is nothing but the subtlest form of the ego. Surrender is not against the ego, it is an in fact an act of the ego. Who surrenders? And by surrendering, who becomes humble? Who becomes meek? It is the ego standing upside down. It makes no difference whether the ego standing on its legs or on its head, In fact it is more dangerous when it is on it's head because you will not be able to recognize it."
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- Dr Purple
- 12-08-17
Deep Osho
This is one for someone who has spent much time with his other books, talks, or time with him. If a critic or beginner listens to this they will not understand . However, this book is most intimate, and revealing. People who are not on the path of awakening, self realization, or who don't already love Osho should start elsewhere.
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- Martin Rus
- 21-04-17
Good stuff
I loved listening to his stories, the entire book is not about self respect, but it's worth a listen.
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- Cletycat
- 12-12-16
Amazing!!!
The delusion under which the human animal exists is amazing!!! However, like a frog in a frying pan under low heat, we never realize that this low heat of cultural conditioning is killing our pure freedom of being, just as the frog is eventually fried. However the blessing of listening to an awakened being like Osho sparks the realization that we are all pure beings when the delusion is seen through.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-20
breaking apart the ego
I love osho and this book was good...but i did not feel a deep cut
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- JORGE_C
- 12-04-17
great book
Not really deep on self respect but many other interesting topics and analysis, puts you in a reality state of mind
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- Albert Essiam
- 08-11-16
Very refreshing and funny
This is one audiobook that will make you feel relaxed and bring lots of smiles to your face.
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- AgentDom
- 01-04-20
Always Love OSHO
Hilarious wholehearted and honorable. take anything with a grain of salt, but always be thankful for those pointing to the moon!
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- UBS
- 14-07-18
If you understand not, follow
if you truly understand and not follow don't stick the details in the knowledge what are the understanding of it you can enjoy the silence.....