Rajneesh Quotes

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.