Rajneesh Quotes

Most people are other people.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.