Rajneesh Quotes

Just remember, everything you are is.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

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

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

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.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

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.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.

What you seek, you already are.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

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.