Rajneesh Quotes

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.

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.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don't think, 'Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!'

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.