Rajneesh Quotes

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.