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Self Quotes by Rajneesh
- Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own…
- These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but…
- Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure…
- Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the…
- When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your…
- Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to…
- Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space, suddenly you become…
- 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…
- This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never…
- The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.
- One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away…
- The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and…
- "The first awareness of the child comes with his ego. He becomes aware of the "I", not of the Self. Really, he becomes aware first…
- Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your…
- 'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole…
- Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The…
- In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but…
- Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just…
- Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our…
- Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying die like a…
- If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground…
- A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him…
- Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any…
- Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster