So if the masses are against me, it is expected.
It cannot be otherwise, it is natural.
What is unexpected is that there are a few people all around the world who are able to stand with me, who are courageous enough to put their prejudices aside and listen to me, who are intelligent enough to recognize the truth when they come across it -- whatsoever the cost and whatsoever the consequence.
In fact, nobody before me has had such intelligent people as I have got around the world, people of such caliber, so receptive, so willing to go through the fire test.
Yes, it is walking on fire when you go towards truth.
It is going to burn you, it is going to burn you completely. And then that which remains unburned, alive, is your reality.
Everything else, which got burned, was rubbish poured over you by others.
Nobody can burn the truth, but to attain the truth you will have to drop so many things, so many burdens.
But I am fortunate that at least one percent of humanity is almost ready to jump and create the first religion of the world: the religion of truth, consciousness -- with no lies about God, heaven, hell, devil -- just the purest twenty-four-carat truth.
Even one percent around the earth is a tremendous force.
You should not think that it is only one percent against ninety-nine percent.
No, those ninety-nine percent are nothing because they don't have any fire of their own.
They are dead before death; they are just walking corpses.
This one percent is tremendously powerful because it is alive.
The fire in it is going to transform the whole world.
And those ninety-nine percent don't count at all.
So I am not concerned with what the masses think about me.
I am concerned only about the one percent of intelligent people in the world -- what they think about me.

OshO

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