Rajneesh Quotes

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

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

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I discovered myself!

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.