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I am less interested in your chain-smoking I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.

Rajneesh

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Rajneesh
Age: 58 †
Born: 1931
Born: December 11
Died: 1990
Died: January 19
Autobiographer
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Osho
Rajneesh Chandra Mohan
Acharya Rajneesh
Osho Rajneesh
Chandra Mohan Jain
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bhagwan
Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh
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