Rajneesh Quotes

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?