"Be Yourself". What does it mean? Is it really possible in today's world?

People say "Just Be Yourself." but what should I do? Can I be myself in the world full of judgemental people? How can I be myself? Such thoughts often occur in our mind, let's find out what it actually means and what can we do.

Be yourself. It means not to put up a facade, or fake personality or nature because you think that might be more salable in some situation. It means to behave the way you would behave if you were in a situation of no importance.

Before you can start being yourself, you have to find yourself, know yourself, know the person who is staring you back in the mirror. And it is not easy to know yourself. You have to be aware of your actions, the way you react, the way you behave alone and around people. You should learn the art of confronting yourself, confront everything you have done, no matter how wrong the decisions you might have taken in the past. Once confronted you learn to forgive yourself which will eventually make your will power strong enough so that you don’t repeat that again.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.

Don't be obsessed with yourself -- but a natural self-love is a must, a basic phenomenon. Only then out of it can you love somebody else. Accept yourself, love yourself - Osho

Nobody else has ever been like you and nobody else will ever be like you; you are simply unique, incomparable. Accept this, love this, celebrate this -- and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of oneself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms.

Once you know what kind of person you are you will become comfortable under your skin. From people pleasing person you become people’s person.

Stop pretending to be someone else to please someone, don't do anything because you are afraid that people will judge you. Yes, the world is full of judgemental people and they will judge you no matter what you do. Don’t let their thinking, their mentality cloud your abilities. Let them hate you for what you are instead of loving you for what you are not.

I would say I have been living my life as who I am. Not pretending to be someone else and a life without faking emotions and lies is going good so far. Talking from my personal experience, it is very satisfying. At the end of the day when i lay in my bed, I feel complete. It is worth a try and let me know if i can help you in finding yourself.