Rajneesh Quotes

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.