Rajneesh Quotes

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Most people are other people.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.