On Decisiveness

by Osho

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Mind is never decisive. It is not a question of one person's mind or another's; mind is indecisiveness.

The functioning of the mind is to waver between two polar opposites and try to find which is the right way. It is as if by closing your eyes you are trying to find the door. Certainly you will feel yourself hanging between the two - to go this way or that; you will by always in a condition of either/or. That's the nature of mind.

Now, Soren Kierkegaard (the philosopher who wrote the book Either/Or) is a great mind, but . . . he had no concept of awareness. He can think, and think very deeply, but he cannot just be silent and watch. That poor fellow had never heard about anything like watching, witnessing, awareness. Thinking was all that he had heard about, and he had put his whole genius into thinking. He had produced great books, but he could not produce a great life for himself. He lived in utter misery.

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