Rajneesh Quotes

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.