Rajneesh Quotes

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

Focus on making you the best you you can be as an actor and follow your own path. You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people's perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.