Rajneesh Quotes

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I'm just living my life.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.