Rajneesh Quotes

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

I try to be honest with myself.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

Self-analysis always cheats.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.