You don't know who you are.
If you had known, then there would have been no problem — then you are not seeking opinions; then you are not worried what others say about you.
It is irrelevant! In fact, nobody ever says anything about you — whenever people say something about you, they are saying it about themselves.
One day it happened: I was in Jaipur and a man came in the morning to see me, and he said, "You are divine."
I said, "You are right!"
He was sitting there and another man came and he was very much against me, and then he said, "You are almost devilish."
I said, "You are right!"
The first man became a little worried. He said, "What do you mean? You told me also, 'You are right,' and you say to this man also, 'You are right' — we can't be both right."
I told him, "Not only two — millions of people can be right about me, because whatsoever they say about me they say about themselves. How can they know me?
It is impossible — they have not even known themselves yet. Whatsoever they say is their interpretation. "
So the man said, "Then who are you? If this is my interpretation that you are divine, and this is his interpretation that you are evil, then who are you?"
I said, "I am just myself. And I have no interpretation about myself, and there is no need. I am simply delighted in being myself! — whatsoever that means. I am happy in being myself."
Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.
And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable. You are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal.
Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself. To know the real Self is not so cheap. But people are always hankering for cheap things.
OSHO
