Rajneesh Quotes

Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.