Comparison is a
disease, one of the greatest diseases. We are taught from the very beginning to
compare. Your mother starts comparing you with other children. Your father
compares. The teacher says, “Look at Johnny, how well he is doing, and you are
not doing well at all!”
From the very beginning,
you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest
disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul. Each
individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself, and you
are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world to be compared with. Do
you compare a marigold with a roseflower? You don’t compare. Do you compare a
mango with an apple? You don’t compare. You know they are different -
comparison is not possible.
Man is not a species.
Each man is unique. There has never been any individual like you before, and
there will never be again. You are utterly unique. This is your privilege, your
prerogative, life’s blessing - it has made you unique.
From Osho.com
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