Top 300 Sadhguru Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “So, the quality of your life is always decided by how you experience life, not by what life offers you.”

— Sadhguru

302. “This is the fundamental question about life. How do you want to spend this moment? People.”

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

304. “Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. This in turn loosens one from this physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created. Death means the physical body is completely lost. There is no contact with the physical body. Samadhi means that the physical body is intact, but the contact with the physical body has become very minimal.”

— Sadhguru

305. “If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don’t, the mind can be a fantastic tool.”

— Sadhguru

306. “If you do not encumber your intellect with any identifications – body, gender, family, qualifications, society, race, caste, creed, community, nation, even species – you travel naturally toward your ultimate nature.”

— Sadhguru

307. “Emotional pain is a memory that we choose to hold on to. Subconsciously or consciously.”

— Sadhguru

308. “There was pain. Terrible, unbearable pain. But pain is a natural phenomenon, and it is good. Without it you wouldn’t know if your leg was chopped off. But suffering is another matter altogether. Pain is bad enough; why make it worse with suffering? Suffering is entirely self-created. And every human being has the choice: to suffer or not to suffer. It doesn’t take much intelligence to choose the latter.”

— Sadhguru

309. “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

310. “As we have seen, whatever you do with your body, mind, or energy leaves a certain imprint. These imprints configure themselves into tendencies. These tendencies have been traditionally described in India by a wonderfully apt word: vasana. Literally, vasana means smell. This “smell” is generated by a vast accumulation of impressions caused by your physical, mental, emotional, and energy actions. Depending upon the type of smell you emit, you attract certain kinds of life situations to yourself.”

— Sadhguru

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

— Sadhguru

312. “It is time to reclaim for ourselves the extraordinary transformative power of this single word: responsibility. Apply it to your life, and watch the magic unfold.”

— Sadhguru

313. “And so these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination.”

— Sadhguru

314. “In today’s world, where information is available everywhere, a school should shift away from propagating information to becoming an inspirational place, which builds beautiful human beings. Education should become a joyful choice, not a compulsive extruder out of which every child has to come out in a certain shape.”

— Sadhguru

315. “If you have to be in love, you should not be. The English expression “falling in love” is very significant. You don’t climb in love, you don’t stand in love, you don’t fly in love, you fall in love. Something of you should fall or melt away to accommodate the other. There is a distinction between a transaction and a love affair. A love affair need not be with any particular person; you could be having a great love affair with life itself.”

— Sadhguru

316. “Inert minds are not a problem. Someone who is very simpleminded and whose intellect is still not effervescent has no trouble. He eats well and sleeps well. It is only people who think too much who cannot eat and sleep properly! Simpleminded people perform all the activities of the body far better than the so-called intellectuals of the world.”

— Sadhguru

317. “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

318. “What you call fate is just a life situation you have created for yourself unconsciously. Your destiny is what you have crafted in unawareness. If you become a hundred percent conscious, your destiny becomes a conscious creation.”

— Sadhguru

319. “You cannot suffer the past and future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.”

— Sadhguru

320. “Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind.”

— Sadhguru

321. “If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.”

— Sadhguru

322. “We have reached a point today where authority has become the truth. But soon as we turn inward, we realize that truth is the only authority!”

— Sadhguru

323. “Unfortunately, these days even so-called spiritual leaders are talking about self-esteem. “Self” and “esteem” are both a problem. Both are very limited entities; both are fragile; both will always be insecure. If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!”

— Sadhguru

324. “The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform.”

— Sadhguru

325. “Joy is not some elusive spiritual goal. It is simply the background milieu that is needed for any aspect of your life to unfold magically and wonderfully. If joy is not the ambience of your life, even life’s most pleasurable activities become burdensome. The issues of life around you can be addressed to the best of your capabilities. But once joy is your constant companion, you are no more an issue in your life. After that, life is a journey of endlessly unfolding celebration and discovery.”

— Sadhguru

326. “Karma is the natural basis of all existence. It is not a law that is imposed from above. It does not allow us to outsource our responsibility anywhere else; it does not allow us to blame our parents, our teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and, above all, the nature of our experience of life.”

— Sadhguru

327. “Now, if my talks were about quoting from a scripture, such friendship and affection would be impossible. Scripture means memory; memory means hierarchy. This hierarchy turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority; what comes from an authority becomes our truth. And this kind of truth renders us incapable, paradoxically, of ever experiencing real truth!”

— Sadhguru

328. “So the source of your misery is not your past actions. The source of your misery is how you’re processing the imprint of the past now.”

— Sadhguru

329. “It takes a little extra intelligence for a person to look beyond what’s available in his culture.”

— Sadhguru

330. “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

331. “The basis of karma yoga is to be involved in the process, not the product.”

— Sadhguru