Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “If you tell yourself you don’t want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce! That is the nature of the human mind.”

— Sadhguru

152. “The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.”

— Sadhguru

153. “There is no such thing as ego; it is empty talk. The nasty part of you, you call it ego. Whenever you get nasty, you don’t want to see, “It is me who is nasty.” You want to say, “Oh, it is my ego.” This is another way of passing the buck. There is no ego. There is just you, and you, loid and you alone.”

— Sadhguru

154. “The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside. On.”

— Sadhguru

155. “As long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment is important. This present moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.”

— Sadhguru

156. “An average person’s pulse rate on an empty stomach would be in the seventies or even eighties. For a person doing the right type of meditative practice, you will find that the pulse rate would range between the thirties and forties. Even after a good lunch it would stay in the fifties. This is just one parameter that indicates the level of restfulness that your body is experiencing moment to moment. Restfulness essentially defines the replenishing and rejuvenating capability of the body.”

— Sadhguru

157. “The question is: do you want to be a full-time human being or a part-time human being? If you restrict your ability to respond, the scope and dimension of your experience will be unsurprising, predictable, limited, narrow. But to be an absolutely full-time human being is to be a constant full-blooded response to everything. You don’t have to do anything in particular. You just need to become a willing piece of life in this glorious living cosmos. Responsibility.”

— Sadhguru

158. “Yama and niyama are simple guidelines, the dos and don’ts on the spiritual path, such as nonviolence; commitment to truth; not stealing; not hoarding wealth; purity; cleanliness; practice; and so on. They create the right atmosphere for one’s spiritual evolution.”

— Sadhguru

159. “But if you pay attention to creation, you realize that the divine, or whatever is the source of creation, is, above all, the highest intelligence that you can imagine. Instead of trying to tap into this all-powerful intelligence that pulsates within each of us, we opt to use our logical intellect, which is useful in certain situations, but essentially limited.”

— Sadhguru

160. “The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence. The.”

— Sadhguru

161. “What then is the way out? The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you.”

— Sadhguru

162. “If you find yourself oscillating between craving and aversion, love and hate, your karma is growing at a rapid pace; your bondage is intensifying. If you have strong likes and dislikes, your suffering is also more intense.”

— Sadhguru

163. “Right now, for most people, these four dimensions are aligned in different directions. Your mind is thinking one way; your emotions pull you another way; your physical body another way; your energy another way. This makes you a potential calamity, an accident waiting to happen. You are being hijacked – you are being pulled apart, in four different ways.”

— Sadhguru

164. “Responsibility and action belong to different dimensions. The ability to respond gives you the freedom to act. It also gives you the freedom not to act. It puts you in the driver’s seat of your life. It empowers you to decide the nature and volume of action you want to undertake. Responsibility is not compulsive action; it offers you the choice of action. Can.”

— Sadhguru

165. “Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.”

— Sadhguru

166. “This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can’t take on other challenges.”

— Sadhguru

167. “Relationships! We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them.”

— Sadhguru

168. “This is because the way of the physical is circumscribed. The body has only so much of a role to play in your life. If you try to stretch it to all of your life, you will suffer because you are trying to create a falsehood. Life has a million ingenious ways to bend you, break you, knead you, and grind you. Nothing.”

— Sadhguru

169. “To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.”

— Sadhguru

170. “It is amazing how human beings struggle just to do what every worm, insect, bird, and animal does quite effortlessly.”

— Sadhguru

171. “We have the tools and technologies in our hands with which we can make this world a paradise, or turn it into a living hell, or obliterate it altogether because of our own capabilities. In other words, we have reached a point where if we do not raise human consciousness, our intelligence and capability is going to work against us. We are racing rapidly towards self-sabotage. It.”

— Sadhguru

172. “If the body is at a certain level of alertness and awareness you will see that once it is well rested, it will awaken – that is, if it is eager to come to life. If it is somehow trying to use the bed as a grave, then it is a problem. Keep the body in such a way that it is not longing to avoid or escape life. Maintain it in such a way that it is longing to come awake.”

— Sadhguru

173. “Your ability to respond is the way you are. Only your ability to act is connected with the outside world. Responsibility is not about talking, thinking, or doing. Responsibility is about being. That’s the way life is – not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to-moment dialogue with the universe. You don’t have to work at making it that way. You just have to see it the way it is.”

— Sadhguru

174. “Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.”

— Sadhguru

175. “Yoga is the technology of upgrading, activating, and refining these inner energies for the highest possibilities. Suddenly, your capabilities reach a level of brilliance that you never imagined possible. An accidental and limited life turns near-miraculous. But.”

— Sadhguru

176. “An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.”

— Sadhguru

177. “Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored.”

— Sadhguru

178. “To talk of good karma and bad karma is like talking of good bondage and bad bondage. There is no such thing. Karma is just your own creation. It is neither good nor bad. It is software that can be useful if you have some freedom from it.”

— Sadhguru

179. “Your five senses are collecting data from the outside world every moment of your life. You are literally being bombarded with stimuli at every instant. Over time, this enormous volume of sense impressions begins to assume a certain distinctive pattern within you. This pattern slowly shapes itself into behavioral tendencies. A cluster of tendencies hardens over time into what you call your personality, or what you claim to be your true nature.”

— Sadhguru

180. “If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out.”

— Sadhguru

181. “The entire aim and endeavor of yoga is to open up the cocoon of the physical body to the larger sensory body where you experience everything as a part of you. Fasting is an extension of this logic: it is a way of nourishing yourself without any active ingestion. It may be done as a detoxification process nowadays, but this is the internal rationale.”

— Sadhguru

182. “In fact, every kind of pleasantness that we experience – whether peace or joy or ecstasy – is a kind of chemistry. The yogic system has always known this.”

— Sadhguru

183. “The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.”

— Sadhguru

184. “Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The Creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you – these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created. If.”

— Sadhguru

185. “To be human means you can mold situations you are living in the way you want them.”

— Sadhguru

186. “Any fool will seek liberation when he is suffering. It takes enormous intelligence to seek liberation when everything is going well.”

— Sadhguru

187. “Once you are released from the fruit of action, the action will happen by itself. You don’t have to stop working to be released from action. Simply, it will dissolve, melt and disappear. Once the expectation of the fruit of action is completely removed from your life, the action occurs by itself. You don’t have to do anything about it.”

— Sadhguru

188. “Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses.”

— Sadhguru

189. “Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say “This is my karma,” we are actually saying “I am responsible for my life.”

— Sadhguru

190. “There one exists not as an accumulation of memory and experience, not as an embodiment of love or compassion. There one simply exists in an intensity of inclusiveness.”

— Sadhguru

191. “We transform the physical body from a series of compulsions of flesh, blood, and hormones into a conscious process, a powerful instrument of perception and knowing.”

— Sadhguru

192. “Affluence has not brought misery. The money did not stay in your pocket; it got into your head. Only then misery came to you. Having lots of money in your pocket is good. But if it enters your head, it becomes misery, because that is not its place.”

— Sadhguru

193. “Relief from something that you cannot hold within you is always the greatest pleasure, isn’t it? Whatever that thing may be!”

— Sadhguru

194. “Put simply, our inner ecology is a mess. Somehow we think that fixing outer conditions will make everything okay on the inside. But these past 150 years are proof that technology will only bring comfort and convenience to us, not well-being. We need to understand that unless we do the right things, the right things will not happen to us: this is true not just of the outside world, but also the inside.”

— Sadhguru

195. “If creativity has to happen, we have to develop a certain level of un-distortedness in the mind. If you carry the baggage of life with you all the time, you cannot see anything the way it is.”

— Sadhguru

196. “Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of health and vitality to the system.”

— Sadhguru

197. “The basic principle is that the very things that can be your downfall in life can be used to raise yourself. If you simply change your perspective, what is down can be up. What is a downward chute can be used as an upward process. Whatever draws you into compulsive nature, you use that to become conscious. You use that momentum to grow.”

— Sadhguru

198. “When we say something that does not really mean anything to us, that does not burn within us, it is tantamount to a lie. It is actually better to shut up. We.”

— Sadhguru

199. “But making your inner life blissful is something that everyone is capable of. It cannot be denied to you, if you are willing. Once you master certain basic yogic technologies of inner well-being, your journey through life becomes absolutely effortless. You are able to express yourself at your fullest potential without any stress or strain. You can play with life whichever way you want, but life cannot leave a single scratch upon you.”

— Sadhguru

200. “When a person is living moment to moment like this and doesn’t carry the burden of the past with him, he is a truly sinless person. He does not carry anything with him. Being sinless doesn’t mean that he did not do anything with his life. That would be being a dead person. He did everything that a person could possibly do to know life, but his actions never left any residue, nor did he build a personality out of the actions he performed.”

— Sadhguru