Rajneesh Quotes

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

It took me a while to find myself.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.