Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”

— Sadhguru

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Sadhguru

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Sadhguru

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

232. “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

233. “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

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

— Sadhguru

235. “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

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

— Sadhguru

237. “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

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

— Sadhguru

239. “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

240. “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

241. “By just watching the sunset I become blissful, is that true bliss? When I am saying my prayers if I become blissful, is that true bliss? When I am meditating and have become blissful, is that true bliss?” How you become blissful, it doesn’t matter. Somehow you become blissful. That is all that matters.”

— Sadhguru

242. “Life and death live in me at once Never held one above the other When one stands far, life I offer In closeness, only death I deal In death of the limited Will the deathless be.”

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

244. “Shiva is only meant for those whose greed is unlimited, for those who are not willing to settle for life in instalments, for those who want to become one with the very source of existence. If you go to the ultimate power in existence, you must also be going with the petition for the greatest possibility. You cannot be going with petty things to the big man! From.”

— Sadhguru

245. “The past, present and future are not three different places, they are a single happening, here and now. When you live this moment profoundly, you experience time not serially but simultaneously not as three, but one. You then wake up to the fact that mystics have known since the dawn of time, that this moment is eternity.”

— Sadhguru

246. “When you pursue your own likes and dislikes, you feel alone in this vast existence, constantly insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged. But once existence yields to you, it delivers you to a different place of grace – where every pebble, every rock, every tree, every atom, speaks to you in a language you understand.”

— Sadhguru

247. “Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself, unconsciously. Depending on the type of actions that you perform, you write your software. Once you write a certain type of software, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns are formed and keep recurring. Now, life is just cyclical.”

— Sadhguru

248. “The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. You’re here only for a while. At least when you’re in a place like this, where nobody is going to trample on you, let your defenses down.”

— Sadhguru

249. “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

250. “The quality of our lives is determined by our ability to respond to the varied complex situations that we encounter. If the ability to respond with intelligence, competence, and sensitivity is compromised by a compulsive or reactive approach, we are enslaved by the situation. It means we have allowed the nature of our life experience to be determined by our circumstances, not by us. Being.”

— Sadhguru