Rajneesh Quotes

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But people go on thinking everything is somewhere outside. We always go on looking for everything outside because to be inwards is very difficult. We are outgoing. If somebody says there is a god, we look at the sky. Somewhere, sitting there, will be the divine person.

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

You're beautiful as you feel.

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.

You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you not as the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. And He loves you because you are His child.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.