Rajneesh Quotes

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

I am my own policeman.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

Never do anything that you don't want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it.

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.