Rajneesh Quotes

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

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

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

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

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

God finds himself by creating.

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

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

Be yourself is all that you can do.