Rajneesh Quotes

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.