“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.”

— Sadhguru

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Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian 1957

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