Rajneesh Quotes

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

I think the goal is always to go deeper within myself, and accept myself on deeper levels and to know myself on deeper levels. Whether or not I look for roles that are going to do that for me, I certainly look for the ways in which the roles I get can do that for me.

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take different looks as you get older, but it's something you keep coming back to. I've always been interested in the relationship between vulnerability and control. That's something that's a big thing for people, whoever they are, no matter how old you are. I think at different times, you're more aware than others.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.