What is religion?
Religion means this trust: that everything is for the good.
This trust that everything is for the good is a religious mind; this is religiousness.
And if you trust that everything is for the good, you will come to realize the divine.
The divine can be realized through such trust.
Even the storm is for the sake of the silence.
Evil exists for the sake of good;
death exists for the sake of life;
suffering and agony are just situations in which ecstasy can happen.
Look at life in this way
and the moment will not be far off when suffering will disappear completely,
when pain will disappear completely, when death will disappear completely.
One who knows that agony exists for the sake of ecstasy cannot be agonized.
One who knows and feels and realizes
that suffering exists for the sake of happiness cannot be made to suffer.
It is impossible.
He is using suffering itself to be more happy,
he is using agony itself as a step toward ecstasy.
He has gone beyond the clutches of the world,
he has taken a jump out of the wheel of sansara.
OSHO
