Rajneesh Quotes

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am not very introspective.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

I'm not good at watching myself.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

I feel like I'm still at a point where I have a lot to learn from watching myself, so I find that it helps. But it's always weird.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

Sometimes you watch yourself, and you think, 'Oh, wow.'

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.