Rajneesh Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

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.

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.