Rajneesh Quotes

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.