Rajneesh Quotes

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.