# The Mustard Seed  ## Metadata - Author: [[Osho]] - Full Title: The Mustard Seed - Category: #books ## Highlights - Jesus’ word for repent simply means “return,” it does not mean repentance at all. It means, turn in, return to the source. It means, return to your own being. That’s what meditation is all about: returning to the source, returning to the center of the cyclone, returning to your very being. ([Location 91](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0039M97O6&location=91)) - Note: Repent means return in Aramaic - The more things can be done by mechanical devices, the less you are needed. And the less you are needed, the more you feel futile, useless, meaningless. Sooner or later, the computer will replace you and then you will not be needed at all. Then you can go and commit suicide because the computer will do everything. ([Location 276](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0039M97O6&location=276)) - Note: The origin of nihilism - Happiness comes out of being needed. When you are needed you feel happy, because you feel your being has meaning, you feel your life has meaning; you feel that you are needed, and that without you things would be different. But now, without you, nothing will be different. Rather, things will be better without you because machines can do everything better than you. You are just a hindrance, just an out-of-date thing. Man is the most out-of-date thing today, because every year everything else comes in a new edition: a new model of Ford car comes out, a new model of everything. Only man remains an out-of-date model. Amidst so many new things, you are the only old thing. ([Location 279](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0039M97O6&location=279)) - Note: Lack of hope is created from the feeling we are no longer needed.