the source

What is your breathing? -- it is existence

coming in and going out.

And scientists say, millions of holes in the

skin are continuously breathing in and out.

You are porous. If your whole body is

painted thickly, and only the nose is allowed

to remain open, you can go on breathing,

but within three hours you will be dead.

Because the whole body breathes -- it is

porous. Existence continuously renews you.

And inside who are you? Inside is an

emptiness. When one realizes this

emptiness, the ego simply disappears -- it is

a myth, it is a dream, it is a fallacy. Because

you have never looked within, you have

created a false ego...

                                         – Osho

                  Returning to the Source, ch. 2