Rajneesh Quotes

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

You have to be honest about who you are.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

It is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I would like to think that I'm always honest with myself and others. I guess that's what makes me a half-decent actor.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.