Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom.”

— Sadhguru

2. “That which knows how to bend will not break.”

— Sadhguru

3. “The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.”

— Sadhguru

4. “My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life.”

— Sadhguru

5. “If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there are no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely toward what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence.”

— Sadhguru

6. “Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.”

— Sadhguru

7. “Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.”

— Sadhguru

8. “Even if the world doesn’t happen the way you want it, at least your thoughts and emotions should happen the way you want them to.”

— Sadhguru

9. “Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.”

— Sadhguru

10. “If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience.”

— Sadhguru

11. “Krishna says in the Gita, “The worst crime in the world is indecision.”

— Sadhguru

12. “All we can ever experience happens from within us.”

— Sadhguru

13. “Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming. Your senses give you the impression that you are experiencing the outside, but you have never experienced the outside. When you realize that all that you experience is within, that absolute homecoming is enlightenment.”

— Sadhguru

14. “When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.”

— Sadhguru

15. “In” is the only way Out.”

— Sadhguru

16. “Love is not something you do; it is just the way you are.”

— Sadhguru

17. “Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.”

— Sadhguru

18. “I do not know” is the doorway – the only doorway – to seeking and knowing.”

— Sadhguru

19. “Peace and joy are the basic requirements for a life of well-being.”

— Sadhguru

20. “Every opinion you have about anything can be a limiting identity.”

— Sadhguru

21. “If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.”

— Sadhguru

22. “All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.”

— Sadhguru

23. “Every thought that arises in the mind has its roots in data you have already accumulated.”

— Sadhguru

24. “Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion.”

— Sadhguru

25. “The path is not difficult. It is very simple. If you are simple, it’s very simple. If you are all wound up, the path is very, very winding. That’s all it is.”

— Sadhguru

26. “The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment.”

— Sadhguru

27. “Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.”

— Sadhguru

28. “You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. That.”

— Sadhguru

29. “If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.”

— Sadhguru

30. “Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”

— Sadhguru

31. “Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, only that person is free from everything, and that quality will be felt everywhere.”

— Sadhguru

32. “The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.”

— Sadhguru

33. “Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom. When you are able to create yourself the way you want, you can create your life the way you want as well. Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.”

— Sadhguru

34. “Freedom – or mukti or moksha – is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.”

— Sadhguru

35. “Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.”

— Sadhguru

36. “What is happening within you and how you experience your life is entirely your making – your karma.”

— Sadhguru

37. “Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.”

— Sadhguru

38. “Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it. It simply means consciously responding to the situation. Once you take responsibility, you will invariably start exploring ways to address the situation. You will look for solutions.”

— Sadhguru

39. “We are the most comfortable generation to have ever lived on this planet. The rub is that we are definitely not the most joyful, or the most loving, or the most peaceful. Why.”

— Sadhguru

40. “If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry.”

— Sadhguru

41. “These are the two fundamental ways in which the spiritual journey can be approached: you can either go slowly, step-by-step, accepting all natural assistance available to you, or you can ignore all the steps and take the inward leap.”

— Sadhguru

42. “The smartest thing about most people is their phone.”

— Sadhguru

43. “For most people, love is initially a joy, but after a while it becomes an anxiety. Why? Because this “key” has legs and a will of its own. You can’t keep it in your pocket or hang it around your neck. When you try to do that, two lives are heading straight for disaster!”

— Sadhguru

44. “I understood that being loving and compassionate is not an idea. To live in empathy is not some esoteric principle. This is the way a human being is made. If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this.”

— Sadhguru

45. “Only for a person who is living with duality there is good and bad karma.”

— Sadhguru

46. “If you still believe that someone “up there” is going to rescue you and solve all your problems, just remember that you are living on a round planet – and one that’s spinning. So, whenever you look up, you are obviously looking in the wrong direction!”

— Sadhguru

47. “Up and down, good and bad, sacred and profane: these are all assumed. But inward and outward: this is the one context we are sure of, the one context we can work with. This is Adiyogi’s most significant contribution to humankind and it is a profound and enduring one: “The only way out is in.”

— Sadhguru

48. “It has always seemed to me odd that the world does not realize the immensity of a state of “I do not know.”

— Sadhguru

49. “What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who.”

— Sadhguru

50. “When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we can become either wise or wounded – that is our choice.”

— Sadhguru