“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
― Osho
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Too late....that ship has sailed.
Being sane in an unsane world is no measure of normalicy.
Sanity is a concept that can actually be different due to culture, life experience, and individual expectations. Also note that enlightenment can manifest under the most insane of conditions. An example of this concerns the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (for development of the polymerase chain reactor, which allowed multiple copy creations of DNA), who quietly admitted that he mentally developed his scientific concept while he was ocean surfing AND while he was tripping on LSD at the same time.
One person's concept of insanity is another person's concept of bliss, depending on the damage to themselves (or others) that may result from such sanity (or insanity for that matter).