Rajneesh Quotes

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.