Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Sadhguru

212. “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

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

— Sadhguru

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “The very essence of dhyana, or meditativeness, is that you push yourself to the highest possible intensity where, after some time, there is no effort. Now meditation will not be an act, but a natural consequence of the intensity that has been achieved. You can simply be. It is in these absolutely non-compulsive states of existence that the necessary atmosphere is set for the blossoming of an individual into a cosmic possibility. If.”

— Sadhguru

218. “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

219. “She trembled – not in fear. Then she asked, “What will you do to me?” The man said, “Well, lady, it’s your dream!” What’s happening in your head is your dream. At least your dream should happen the way you want it, shouldn’t it? 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

220. “Don’t think of this as your first step or last step. Just be here as a piece of life. That is the best way to be. You are not a young man; you are not an old man. You are just a piece of life.”

— Sadhguru

221. “I discovered the most fundamental mistake that most of us make: the fact that we view the ingredients which constitute our body, like earth, water, air, and food, as commodities and not as an organic part of the life process.”

— Sadhguru

222. “As your likes and dislikes become stronger, as your identifications become stronger with one thing or another, all that you are doing is excluding existence. If I say, “I like this very much,” in a big way I am excluding the rest of existence at that moment. So the stronger it becomes, the deeper the exclusion becomes. The very process of liberation is to include, not to exclude. In exclusion, you become trapped. In inclusion, you become liberated.”

— Sadhguru

223. “Now, every child does have the necessary intelligence. You create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence rather than superimposing your rottenness on him.”

— Sadhguru

224. “When you were just born, it did not take immediate effect. It was waiting. As the process of growth happens, it looks for the right kind of situation and takes effect.”

— Sadhguru

225. “Until this time, I had completely refused to accept anything in my life that did not fit into a rational and logical framework. Slowly, I began to realize that it is life that is the ultimate intelligence. Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival. But true intelligence is just life and life – and that which is the source of life. Nothing else.”

— Sadhguru

226. “Why human life needs so much attention is because we are human beings.”

— Sadhguru

227. “For most yogis and mystics, the problem has been that they could never share the fruits of their realization with people around them. To find another person capable of receiving what you know is not easy. If you find even one person you are fortunate.”

— Sadhguru

228. “To claim a limited end to a limitless process, to reduce the infinite to the finite, to draw borders across the borderless, to make measurements of the unfathomable – this is the beginning of the human impulse to create certainty where none exists. It is the birth of pain, of suffering, of delusion. The.”

— Sadhguru

229. “A vast number of people live in states of constant anxiety and depression. Some are suffering their failure, but ironically, many are suffering the consequences of their success. Some are suffering their limitations, but many are suffering their freedom.”

— Sadhguru

230. “Human perception through the sense organs is always piecemeal. It can give you an illusion of completeness but can never comprehend the whole.”

— Sadhguru

231. “The whole idea behind fashioning such an image – that embodies life and death all at once – is to make the point that whatever you call divine is something that can never be logically understood. It can be experienced, but never grasped. There.”

— Sadhguru

232. “Many senseless people who don’t even know how they should live are going on producing more children. They have not even learned how they should live. Forget about enlightenment; they don’t even know how to keep their physical body! They don’t know what the human form is. They don’t know how to keep their emotions; they don’t know how to keep their mind in balance. Why are these people going on producing children?”

— Sadhguru

233. “What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable. Being.”

— Sadhguru

234. “Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being – fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.”

— Sadhguru

235. “This is the human misfortune that still there’s not enough intelligence in the world that human beings will rise to their peaks when everything is well. They wait for calamities.”

— Sadhguru

236. “Today, if you have one depressing thought in you, you will sit depressed. Why? The whole cosmos is going on phenomenally well today, but that does not matter. In your mind there is one thought – not too many, just one – that is bothering you, that will depress you and put you in the dumps.”

— Sadhguru

237. “The first thing is to stand up and be sensible. To handle this body, to handle this mind, to handle these emotions, things that are within you right now, to handle them sensibly. If.”

— Sadhguru

238. “If you avoid any experience – whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy – it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. This is why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.”

— Sadhguru

239. “People are even beginning to think that fear is a natural part of their existence. No. Fear is a result of the incompleteness of your existence. If you have not explored life in its magnitude and multidimensionality, but have limited yourself to the physical body, fear is a natural consequence.”

— Sadhguru

240. “The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture – often worse than the actual disaster. So, as long as your inner life is enslaved to external situations, it will remain a precarious condition. There is no other way for it to be. What.”

— Sadhguru

241. “Even on a daily basis, one can make this awareness a part of one’s life. When you are hungry and want to eat, just postpone it by ten minutes. Be conscious of your hunger, do not get busy with some other activity. Consciously postpone your meal and wait.”

— Sadhguru

242. “Everybody thinks they need to do God’s work. If God is almighty, do you have to do his work? No. You just mind your business.”

— Sadhguru

243. “Just a simple act like this loosens you from your identification with the physical body. As you become less of a body, your awareness of the other dimensions of who you are naturally becomes enhanced. When you are very hungry all your body wants to do is eat. Just wait for two minutes; you will find that it will make a big difference. When you are very hungry, you are the body. Give it a little space and suddenly you are not just a body.”

— Sadhguru

244. “Only if you realize you are responsible do you have the freedom to create yourself the way you want to be, not as a reaction to the situations in which you exist. Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.”

— Sadhguru

245. “It is unfortunate that we have moved from intuition to information.”

— Sadhguru

246. “The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception.”

— Sadhguru

247. “Once you’ve tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough – then you are ready.”

— Sadhguru

248. “Every kind of misery that human beings are going through is manufactured in their minds.”

— Sadhguru

249. “Every fluctuation on the level of the mind has a chemical reaction in the body, and every chemical reaction in the body in turn generates a fluctuation on the level of the mind.”

— Sadhguru

250. “One fundamental requirement for anybody who wishes to grow on the spiritual path is to have an un-deviated flow of energy towards one and only one goal in life: to attain to the highest and not settle for anything less than that.”

— Sadhguru