That is the real prison.

There are people who cannot understand that happiness is possible in any way other than sex. There are people who cannot understand that there is any bliss beyond sex. There are people who cannot understand that there is any happiness except in food. There are people who cannot understand that there is any happiness except in big houses, big cars, much money, power and prestige. It is impossible to understand beyond your own standpoint - people remain confined within their own standpoints. That is the real prison.

If you want a synthesis you have to drop all the imprisonments, you have to drop out of your cages. They are very subtle cages and you have decorated them for a long time; you may have even started loving them. You may have forgotten completely that they are prisons; you may have started thinking that they are your home.

But if you have lived with this wall for too long, if the mind has become accustomed to it, you think of it as a protection, as a shelter, as security. And then you look at other people; from your cell in the prison, you look outside. Your presence in the cell corrupts your vision.

Come out under the sky and under the stars - and synthesis will take care of itself. You are simply to go beyond these standpoints. Move to the transcendental and there is synthesis.

~ Osho - Book: The Art of Dying