Rajneesh Quotes

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.