Rajneesh Quotes

I have had to learn and to understand that sometimes I can't be always be at my best.

I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.