Rajneesh Quotes

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The only journey is the one within.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.