Rajneesh Quotes

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

It's important that a person doesn't lose track of himself.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I was a personality before I became a person.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.