Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.”

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

153. “Different people need different kinds of impetus. If they are sensible, they learn by just looking. If they are not sensible, they learn by a thrashing. Life will thrash them.”

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

156. “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

157. “Maybe it is beyond your perception right now, but because your physical form is just a fragment of the planet, everything that is happening to any part of the universe is also in some way happening to you!”

— Sadhguru

158. “So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. Unfortunately if I use the word ‘spirituality,’ people think they will have to chant or go sit in the temple, church or mosque, or that they have to give up their food and clothing. Spirituality is not about that. It’s about enhancing your perception. The.”

— Sadhguru

159. “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

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

— Sadhguru

161. “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

162. “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

163. “Learn to place your intellect in the sheath of your awareness rather than in the sack of memory and identification. Once you do, this tremendous instrument can cut its way effortlessly toward the ultimate.”

— Sadhguru

164. “Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day – definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.”

— Sadhguru

165. “Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”

— Sadhguru

166. “Whatever happens naturally is always right, there is no question about it. It is just that your short-term goals and objectives may not be in tune with what is happening, so you struggle with it. But in the real sense, it cannot be wrong. It always moves in the right direction because Nature does not decide things with thoughts and emotion. It just decides things as per your tendencies. This is not a thought. With thought, you can always make a mistake.”

— Sadhguru

167. “This moment, the quality of your life is simply decided by how peaceful and joyous you are right now within yourself. That is all that decides the quality of your life. So.”

— Sadhguru

168. “The question is, are we using our emotions to entangle ourselves or to liberate ourselves?”

— Sadhguru

169. “I never form an opinion on anyone. How they are in this moment is all that matters. How they are tomorrow, let us see. Tomorrow must be created, not concretized right now.”

— Sadhguru

170. “The intellect cannot laugh, it can only dissect.”

— Sadhguru

171. “No matter who you are or what you have achieved, you still want a little more than what you have right now. This is human desire.”

— Sadhguru

172. “The point is that anger is rooted in your false perception that you can change the situation by losing your temper with it.”

— Sadhguru

173. “But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly.”

— Sadhguru

174. “Discern the real from the illusory, what is existentially true from what is psychologically true.”

— Sadhguru

175. “You will become spiritual only when the realm of your experience transcends the physical reality, and you begin experiencing that which is not physical.”

— Sadhguru

176. “If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.”

— Sadhguru

177. “And the journey on the spiritual path is the greatest journey – no man has climbed a mountain peak higher than this, no man has ever dived into a deeper ocean. The depth of the self is the deepest, and the height is the highest.”

— Sadhguru

178. “Those who work only for a livelihood often feel constrained and suffocated. But when you are deeply involved in your work on every level, you will find activity invigorates you; it does not exhaust you.”

— Sadhguru

179. “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

180. “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

181. “Modern science tells us that all of existence is just energy manifesting itself in different ways and in different forms.”

— Sadhguru

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

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

— Sadhguru

190. “I want you to understand: however big one is in the world, tomorrow morning if I fall dead or you fall dead, the world will go on just fine – maybe better – without us!”

— Sadhguru

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

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

— Sadhguru

195. “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

196. “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

197. “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

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

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

200. “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