"We have created houses, palaces, just because of the memory of the womb. We make them as cozy as possible, but yet there is nothing like the womb. Whatsoever you do you will have to worry about a thousand and one things; you will have to take care of yourself. Even the greatest emperor is not so fearless as the smallest child in the Mother's womb, the poorest child.
Fear is part of the birth process, and the first thing that a child is going to do is scream, cry. He has been uprooted from such a warm, loving cozy atmosphere, and has been thrown into a world so cold, so alien...the fear has entered in.
And with fear enters greed; greed is the other side of the same coin. Greed means accumulating everything that will help you to remain fearless. If money can help then accumulate money, if power can help then be powerful..or whatsoever it is. To protect yourself against fear, greed starts growing. And the religions have exploited both instincts. Fear has become the hell, greed has become the heaven; these are projections."
Osho |
