Sadhguru: Trending quotes (page 5)

“If you resist change, you resist life.”

“If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.”

“Your joy keeps crashing down repeatedly. It doesn't matter how many times you think 'This is it', it keeps falling down simply because you don't understand the mechanics of it.”

“If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves.”

“Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.”

“As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, the many religions of the world are an expression of one divine source.”

“Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.”

“True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.”

“In the case of Isha, the process will last in a very active way for six hundred to seven hundred years. After that, it will continue in a lowered way. But the energy part of it is indestructible. Though, right now, the teaching looks like the major part, it is actually just a small part in my life. The real work that I do is not in what I am saying or doing around the world. The real work is in the “eggs” that I lay which can’t be destroyed, which will be there forever.”

“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”

“If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things”

“How aware you are is how alive you are.”

“This life for me is an endeavor to help people manifest their divinity.”

“If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?”

“Awareness is aliveness.”

“The most important aspect of my life is I never identified anything as small or big. I pay the same level of attention to everything. Without prejudice of what is big and what is small, you'll effortlessly navigate your way through life.”