Rajneesh Quotes

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

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.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Truth is within ourselves.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

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.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

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

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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.

What you are looking for is within you

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.