171 Inspirational Quotes from Sadhguru’s Transformative Book, “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy”
Last updated on December 12th, 2023 at 10:32 am
Isha Foundation’s Inner Engineering program is a game-changer for self-discovery and inner evolution. If you’ve experienced it, you’ll understand the profound impact it can have on your life. In addition, Sadhguru’s book, “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy,” provides transformative wisdom that beautifully complements the program. Together, the program and the book offer a well-rounded approach to personal growth, guiding you towards self-realization and a life brimming with joy and fulfillment.
As you go about your daily life, remember these words from Sadhguru:
“The essence of Inner Engineering is to engineer yourself in such a way that every moment of your life is a new possibility.”
~ Sadhguru
This simple yet profound truth encapsulates the essence of Inner Engineering.
Get ready to be captivated by the wisdom encapsulated in these 170 book quotes we’re presenting below. By embodying these quotes in your daily life, you continue to contribute to the positive change that began within you and radiates outward, transforming “not just your world, but the world around you.“
Best Quotes From ‘Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy’ by Sadhguru
#2 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.
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#3 All human experience is one hundred percent self-created. ~ Sadhguru
#4 Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there! ~ Sadhguru
#5 All we can ever experience happens from within us. ~ Sadhguru
#6 I do not know is the doorway—the only doorway—to seeking and knowing. ~ Sadhguru
#7 The point is that anger is rooted in your false perception that you can change the situation by losing your temper with it. ~ Sadhguru
#8 In rage, you become one with a group; out of rage, you become one with the universe. ~ Sadhguru
#9 Making your inner life blissful is something that everyone is capable of. It cannot be denied to you, if you are willing. ~ Sadhguru
#10 Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know. ~ Sadhguru
#11 A well-established human mind is referred to as a kalpavriksha, or a wishing tree that grants any boon. ~ Sadhguru
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#12 Make a list of all the things that the major religions of the world call a sin, and you will find that just to be alive is a sin. ~ Sadhguru
#13 Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together. ~ Sadhguru
#14 Blissfulness means life is happening in an exuberant manner, and that is all that life seeks. ~ Sadhguru
#15 Every human being lives in a perpetual state of insufficiency. ~ Sadhguru
#16 You may think right now that you are going to your office, home, or football match, but as far as your body is concerned, it is going, moment by moment, straight toward the grave. ~ Sadhguru
#17 The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, feel, and experience life. Trying to eat intelligently means understanding what kind of fuel this body is designed for and accordingly supplying it, so that it functions at its best. ~ Sadhguru
#18 In the inner life, there is only one kind of revolution and it is a silent one. It is about moving from unwillingness to willingness. ~ Sadhguru
#19 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
#20 To be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly. Right now, it may be limited to one or two people in your lives. But it is possible to extend this ability to embrace the entire world. ~ Sadhguru
#21 The body is a pretty complete and self-contained instrument. If you are fascinated by machines, there isn’t a better one! ~ Sadhguru
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#22 The present is the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this moment. This moment is eternity. ~ Sadhguru
#23 Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means what’s fine and what’s not fine do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. When a devotee says God is everywhere or everything is God, he is essentially saying everything is fine. ~ Sadhguru
#24 Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it. It simply means consciously responding to the situation. Once you take responsibility, you will invariably start exploring ways to address the situation. You will look for solutions. ~ Sadhguru
#25 Maybe it is beyond your perception right now, but because your physical form is just a fragment of the planet, everything that is happening to any part of the universe is also in some way happening to you! ~ Sadhguru
#26 Don’t battle with life. You are not anti-life; you are life. Just get in tune with it and you will see that you will pass through it easily. Keeping yourself fit and well is not a battle. Do some activity that you enjoy: play a game, swim, walk, run. If you don’t like to do anything except eat cheesecake all day, then you have a problem! Otherwise, there is no incompatibility between being active and relaxed at the same time. ~ Sadhguru
#27 Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts. ~ Sadhguru
#28 Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life. ~ Sadhguru
#29 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
#30 If you have no tantra in you, you have no technology to transform people; all you have are words. Words can be inspirational and directional, but not transformative. ~ Sadhguru
#31 Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow. ~ Sadhguru
#32 Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth. ~ Sadhguru
#33 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.
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#34 Anger is fundamentally self-defeating. If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry. Above all, you were working against yourself. If you work against yourself, if you sabotage your own well-being, you are obviously choosing unintelligence as a way of life. ~ Sadhguru
#35 The human desire to transcend the limitations of the physical is a completely natural one. To journey from the boundary-based individual body to the boundless source of creation—this is the very basis of the spiritual process. ~ Sadhguru
#36 For a person doing the right type of meditative practice, you will find that the pulse rate would range between the thirties and forties. Even after a good lunch it would stay in the fifties. This is just one parameter that indicates the level of restfulness that your body is experiencing moment to moment. Restfulness essentially defines the replenishing and rejuvenating capability of the body. ~ Sadhguru
#37 An idiot can sit here quietly. A mystic can sit here quietly. An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions. The rest have glorified their conclusions as knowledge. ~ Sadhguru
#38 Are you capable of responding to a plant? You are. To a stranger on the street? You are. To the moon? You are. To the sun, to the stars? You are. To the whole cosmos? You are. ~ Sadhguru
#39 Creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation’s unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. ~ Sadhguru
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#40 By focusing at a point six to nine inches away from the region between your eyebrows for twelve to forty-eight minutes, with your eyes open, you can realize the nature and structure of your individual chakras (depending on the duration and your level of focus). This perception can help in stabilizing the random movement of chakras in the human physiology due to stressful external situations. This is just one aspect of a very sophisticated form of kriya yoga that allows you access to your inner akashic, or etheric, dimension. ~ Sadhguru
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#41 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. ~ Sadhguru
#42 Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others. ~ Sadhguru
#43 If you pay attention to creation, you realize that the divine, or whatever is the source of creation, is, above all, the highest intelligence that you can imagine. Instead of trying to tap into this all-powerful intelligence that pulsates within each of us, we opt to use our logical intellect, which is useful in certain situations, but essentially limited. ~ Sadhguru
#44 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.
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#45 But you won’t ever see me distressed because my way of being is not in any way enslaved to what’s happening outside. This is not an otherworldly achievement. It is possible for everyone to live this way. ~ Sadhguru
#46 If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don’t, the mind can be a fantastic tool. ~ Sadhguru
#47 Can you then respond to the moon? You can. Your body and life energies certainly do. When entire oceans rise in response to the cycles of the moon, do you think the water content in your own system doesn’t rise as well? Maybe you aren’t an astronaut; maybe you can never walk on the moon. But you can respond to the moon. In fact, you already do. You can just choose to do it—willingly, consciously. ~ Sadhguru
#48 An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like highly complex problems. Right now being peaceful and joyful is made out to be the most significant problem in human existence. In pursuit of human happiness, we are ripping the planet apart. ~ Sadhguru
#49 Devotees have the sweetest experience of life. Everybody may think they are idiots, but they are having the best time on the planet. You decide who the idiot is! ~ Sadhguru
#50 If you start looking at the world around you, you would clearly understand that what you know is so minuscule that there is no way to act with confidence. A belief system takes away this problem; it gives you enormous confidence, but it does not cure your stupidity. ~ Sadhguru
#51 Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of health and vitality to the system. ~ Sadhguru
#52 The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it. There is a vast difference between the two. And it can make the world of a difference. ~ Sadhguru
#53 Your senses give you the impression that you are experiencing the outside, but you have never experienced the outside. When you realize that all that you experience is within, that absolute homecoming is enlightenment. ~ Sadhguru
#54 Every forty to forty-eight minutes, there is also a shift of dominance in the way the breath is moving through the right and left nostrils. It is dominant in the right nostril for a length of time, and then in the left. Become aware of this so you know at least something about you is changing. This awareness can be further enhanced into awareness of the solar and lunar influences upon the body. If you bring your physical system in sync with the lunar and solar cycles, your physical and psychological health is guaranteed. ~ Sadhguru
#55 Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
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#56 Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. ~ Sadhguru
#57 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
#58 I have never touched any substance, but if you look into my eyes you will see that I am always stoned. I am totally drunk and fully aware. This is one of the pleasures that the science of yoga offers. ~ Sadhguru
#59 For a human being, life doesn’t seem to end with survival; life begins with survival. ~ Sadhguru
#60 If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience. ~ Sadhguru
#61 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
#62 Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination. ~ Sadhguru
#63 If we had no problem with biology, we would not make a distinction between who was who. Everybody would be known for what they are worth; whether somebody is male or female would be irrelevant. ~ Sadhguru
#64 Guru literally means dispeller of darkness. The function of the guru, contrary to popular belief, is not to teach, indoctrinate, or convert. The guru is here to throw light on dimensions beyond your sensory perceptions and your psychological drama, dimensions that you are currently unable to perceive. The guru is here, fundamentally, to throw light on the very nature of your existence. ~ Sadhguru
#65 Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it? Your mental process is a very small happening compared to the life process, but right now it has become far more important. ~ Sadhguru
#66 I couldn’t help noticing that people coming out of restaurants always had more joyful faces than those coming out of temples. That intrigued me. ~ Sadhguru
#67 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
#68 Everything may seem to be going your way: your professional life may be flourishing, your capital may be increasing, your family may be thriving, but you are not really getting anywhere. The faster you achieve your success, the faster you realize this. ~ Sadhguru
#69 I understood that being loving and compassionate is not an idea. To live in empathy is not some esoteric principle. This is the way a human being is made. If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this. ~ Sadhguru
#70 If I think you are a wonderful person, I will have sweet emotions toward you. If I think you are a horrible person, I will harbor nasty emotions about you. If you make someone your enemy and then try to love him or her, that is hard work. Let us not make hard work of the simple aspects of life.
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#71 If terrible things have happened to you, you ought to have grown wise. If the worst possible events have befallen you, you should be the wisest of the lot. ~ Sadhguru
#72 If the body is at a certain level of alertness and awareness you will see that once it is well rested, it will awaken—that is, if it is eager to come to life. If it is somehow trying to use the bed as a grave, then it is a problem. Keep the body in such a way that it is not longing to avoid or escape life. Maintain it in such a way that it is longing to come awake. ~ Sadhguru
#73 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
#74 Human perception through the sense organs is always piecemeal. It can give you an illusion of completeness but can never comprehend the whole. ~ Sadhguru
#75 If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom. ~ Sadhguru
#76 In terms of instruments, it is not your computer, car, or spacecraft, but the human mind that is the most miraculous—if only you could use it consciously. The reason why success comes so easily and naturally for one person, and is a struggle for someone else, is essentially this: one person has organized his or her mind to think the way he wants, and another thinks against his or her own interests. ~ Sadhguru
#77 If we were to distill the essence of his wisdom in a few lines, it would be just this. Up and down, good and bad, sacred and profane: these are all assumed. But inward and outward: this is the one context we are sure of, the one context we can work with. ~ Sadhguru
#78 If you are compulsive, you will see that situations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in your life will be in cycles. They keep coming back to you once every six or eighteen months, three years, or six years, depending on your degree of compulsiveness. If you just look back on your life, you will notice this. If they come once every twelve years, that means your system is in a high state of receptivity and balance. ~ Sadhguru
#79 If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out. ~ Sadhguru
#80 If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience. Just the act of inhaling and exhaling can be a tremendous love affair. ~ Sadhguru
#81 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
#82 If you eat raw meat, it takes between seventy to seventy-two hours to pass through your system; cooked meat takes fifty to fifty-two hours; cooked vegetables twenty-four to thirty hours; uncooked vegetables twelve to fifteen hours; fruits one and a half to three hours. ~ Sadhguru
#83 If you employ your intelligence and make an attempt to reach your ultimate nature, this is called gnana yoga, or the yoga of knowing. ~ Sadhguru
#84 If you generate a powerful thought and let it out, it will always manifest itself. For this to happen, it is important that you do not impede and weaken your thought by creating negative and self-defeating thought patterns.
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#85 If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment. ~ Sadhguru
#86 If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess. ~ Sadhguru
#87 If you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect. ~ Sadhguru
#88 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
#89 If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn. ~ Sadhguru
#90 If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there are no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely toward what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence. ~ Sadhguru
#91 If you still believe that everything will be okay the moment you find a new girlfriend or boyfriend, get a raise, buy a new house or car, then it is not yet time for yoga. Once you’ve tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready. So now, yoga. ~ Sadhguru
#92 If you tell yourself you don’t want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce! That is the nature of the human mind. ~ Sadhguru
#93 If you want an element of spirituality to enter your life, the first thing you must do is drop these rigid ideas of virtue and vice, and learn to look at life just the way it is. ~ Sadhguru
#94 If your energies are dominant in muladhara, then food and sleep will be the most dominant factors in your life. If your energies are dominant in swadhishthana, pleasure will be most dominant in your life; this means you enjoy your physical reality in many ways. If your energies are dominant in manipuraka, you are a doer; you can accomplish many things in the world. If your energies are dominant in anahata, you are a very creative person. If your energies are dominant in vishuddhi, you will develop a powerful presence. If your energies are dominant in agna, then you are intellectually realized. Intellectual realization can bring you to a certain state of peace and stability within yourself, irrespective of what is happening outside of you. ~ Sadhguru
#95 If your humanity overflows, divinity will follow and serve you. It has no other choice. ~ Sadhguru
#96 If your thought and your emotion are of your making, you can mold them any way you like. There is scientific proof today that without ingesting a drop of alcohol or any other substance, you can get fully intoxicated by yourself. ~ Sadhguru
#97 In fact, as we have seen, every subatomic particle in your body is responding in a limitless way to the great dance of energies that is the cosmos. The only reason you are not experiencing the life process in all its majesty and profundity is your current state of mental resistance. Your psychological structure is a stone wall. If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience. ~ Sadhguru
#98 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
#99 In is the only way Out.
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#100 Indian culture built numerous temples on every street. The idea was not to create temples that were in competition with one another. The idea was simply that no one should live in a space that is not consecrated. ~ Sadhguru
#101 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! Simple minded people perform all the activities of the body far better than the so-called intellectuals of the world. ~ Sadhguru
#102 Inner pleasantness is a surefire insurance for the making of a peaceful society and a joyful world. ~ Sadhguru
#103 It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive. ~ Sadhguru
#104 It is amazing how human beings struggle just to do what every worm, insect, bird, and animal does quite effortlessly. ~ Sadhguru
#105 It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed that causes stress.
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#106 It is said that if you can remain blissful for twenty-four hours, your intellectual capabilities can be almost doubled. Just settling the internal muddle and allowing clarity to surface can achieve this. ~ Sadhguru
#107 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
#108 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
#109 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
#110 Kriya yoga cannot be done with people who talk freedom all the time. It is not for people who keep asking, Why am I not free to eat my ice cream? Why can’t I wake up whenever I feel like it? Why can’t I eat, drink, or have sex with whatever, whoever, whenever I feel like? If you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes. ~ Sadhguru
#111 Learn to place your intellect in the sheath of your awareness rather than in the sack of memory and identification. Once you do, this tremendous instrument can cut its way effortlessly toward the ultimate.
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#112 Life can be tasted and transcended only when there is a distinction between the psychological and the existential. ~ Sadhguru
#113 Once you choose to become conscious of this simple fact—my ability to respond is limitless—suddenly life within you reorganizes itself in a completely different way. You move into higher and higher levels of freedom within yourself. Life is now a wonderful and exhilarating journey of self-discovery. ~ Sadhguru
#114 Literally, yoga means union. When you are in yoga, it means that in your experience, everything has become one. This is the essence of the science. This is also its deepest aim. ~ Sadhguru
#115 Love is never between two people. It is what happens within you, and your interiority need not be enslaved to someone or something else. Try this for fifteen minutes or so: go sit with something that means nothing to you right now—maybe a tree, a pebble, a worm, or an insect. Do it a few days in a row. After a while, you will find you can look upon it with as much love as you do your wife or husband or mother or child. Maybe the worm does not know this. That doesn’t matter. If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience. ~ Sadhguru
#116 Mastication involves grinding and then thoroughly mixing the food with the saliva; hence the design modification in the jaw. If mastication happens properly, close to fifty percent of your digestive process would be finished in the mouth. In other words, the stomach region is expecting partially digested food to efficiently complete the process. In modern life, people are in such a hurry that we gulp our rush-hour lunches without the food being properly masticated. The stomach is burdened not only with undigested food, but also with partially destroyed food. Today’s kitchens have largely become places where food is efficiently destroyed. ~ Sadhguru
#117 Modern science has arrived at its conclusions through mathematical deduction. Religion has arrived at its conclusions through belief. But the yogi is a hard nut who will not settle for deduction or belief. He or she seeks to experience the ultimate through the enhancement of individual perception. Consequently, the yogic tradition does not mention God, or deny it either. ~ Sadhguru
#118 Most people are not aware of the nature of their longing. When their longing finds unconscious expression, we call this greed, conquest, ambition. When their longing finds conscious expression, we call this yoga. ~ Sadhguru
#119 My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life. ~ Sadhguru
#120 Mysticism on this planet evolved only in those places where people learned the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature. This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can’t take on other challenges. ~ Sadhguru
#121 No boundary, no burden. This is the turnaround in human consciousness that needs to take place. Once this happens, it is not that the cosmos begins to happen your way. Instead, what you are becomes cosmic. This is not transcendence; this is homecoming. ~ Sadhguru
#122 No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.
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#123 Once you take charge of your inner life, there is no such thing as stress. ~ Sadhguru
#124 Once your joy is on self-start rather than push-start, you have upgraded your technology. You are no longer enslaved to an external source—whether a person or a situation. You are now capable of being loving and blissful without doing anything in particular, just sitting here, no matter how anyone in the outside world behaves. Once you experience this inner freedom, you will never experience insecurity in your life again. ~ Sadhguru
#125 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
#126 Relief from something that you cannot hold within you is always the greatest pleasure, isn’t it? Whatever that thing may be! ~ Sadhguru
#127 Remain still. Allow your attention to slowly grow still as well. Do this for five to seven minutes a day. You will notice that your breath will slow down. ~ Sadhguru
#128 Responsibility is not about talking, thinking, or doing. Responsibility is about being. That’s the way life is—not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to- moment dialogue with the universe. You don’t have to work at making it that way. You just have to see it the way it is. ~ Sadhguru
#129 Right now, for most people, these four dimensions are aligned in different directions. Your mind is thinking one way; your emotions pull you another way; your physical body another way; your energy another way. This makes you a potential calamity, an accident waiting to happen. You are being hijacked—you are being pulled apart, in four different ways. ~ Sadhguru
#130 Spirituality does not mean moving away from life; it means becoming alive to the core, in the fullest possible way. With age, physical agility may diminish, but the level of joy and aliveness need not. If your level of joy and aliveness is declining, you are committing suicide in installments. ~ Sadhguru
#131 That is why the yogic system does not talk about God. It does not talk about the soul or heaven. Such talk invariably makes people hallucinatory. Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. ~ Sadhguru
#132 The body responds the moment it is in touch with the earth. That is why spiritual people in India walked barefoot and always sat on the ground in a posture that allowed for maximum area of contact with the earth. In this way, the body is given a strong experiential reminder that it is just a part of this earth. ~ Sadhguru
#133 The crux of the matter is that you don’t yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as myself is just an accumulation. ~ Sadhguru
#134 The day the system says no food is a cleanup day. Since most people are not aware of which day their body should go without food, the day of Ekadashi was fixed in the Indian calendar. Ekadashi is the eleventh day of the lunar segment and recurs every fourteen days. ~ Sadhguru
#135 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
#136 The essence of yoga, as we have said before, is just this—to arrive at that moment where there is a clear space between you and your mind.
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#137 The faster you achieve your success, the faster you realize this. When you are in a certain state of insufficiency, you keep thinking that everything will be okay once your dreams are realized. But if all the things you dreamt of happen very quickly, you suddenly realize that, although everything is happening as you thought it should, life still remains unfulfilled and your longings persist. ~ Sadhguru
#138 The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment. ~ Sadhguru
#139 The question is: do you want to be a full-time human being or a part-time human being? If you restrict your ability to respond, the scope and dimension of your experience will be unsurprising, predictable, limited, narrow. But to be an absolutely full-time human being is to be a constant full-blooded response to everything. You don’t have to do anything in particular. You just need to become a willing piece of life in this glorious living cosmos. ~ Sadhguru
#140 The thing to remember is that none of these will settle you in any enduring way. Human life is longing for unlimited expansion, and that is the only thing that will settle you for good. ~ Sadhguru
#141 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. ~ Sadhguru
#142 The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as you and me. It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga. ~ Sadhguru
#143 There is not a single Indian temple where there is no image of a snake. This is not because this is a culture of serpent worshippers. It signifies that a sacred space holds the possibility of arousing the unmanifest energies in you. ~ Sadhguru
#144 There is so much talk of God and heaven mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of being human.
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#145 These are the two fundamental ways in which the spiritual journey can be approached: you can either go slowly, step-by-step, accepting all natural assistance available to you, or you can ignore all the steps and take the inward leap. ~ Sadhguru
#146 They are labeling their compulsions, their limitations, as their choices. If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom. But limiting yourself to doing only what you like is a horribly compulsive way to live. ~ Sadhguru
#147 This is the sole purpose of the spiritual process. The life and work of every spiritual guide, across history and across culture, has been just this: to point out that the cage door does not exist. Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice. ~ Sadhguru
#148 Though unity is the basic fabric of creation, duality brings texture, design, and color to life. ~ Sadhguru
#149 Through millions of years of evolution, nature has caged you within certain boundaries—this is the human predicament. But this imprisonment is only on the level of biology. On the level of human consciousness, you are like a bird in a cage without a door. What a tragic irony! It is only out of long aeons of habit that you are refusing to fly free. ~ Sadhguru
#150 To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations—these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities. Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super. ~ Sadhguru
#151 To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life. ~ Sadhguru
#152 To talk of good karma and bad karma is like talking of good bondage and bad bondage. There is no such thing. Karma is just your own creation. It is neither good nor bad. It is software that can be useful if you have some freedom from it. ~ Sadhguru
#153 True intelligence is just life and life—and that which is the source of life. ~ Sadhguru
#154 Turning inward does not have anything to do with thoughts, ideas, opinions, or philosophies. It has nothing to do with the psychological activity of your mind. Enhancing your perception means enhancing your ability to receive life, just as it is. If you are willing to dedicate just a few minutes of your life to this every day, you would see the change. The simple process of paying a little bit of attention to your inner nature will transform the quality of your life in remarkable ways. ~ Sadhguru
#155 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
#156 Universality is not an idea; it is an existential truth. It is individuality that is an idea. Yoga is simply chitta vritti nirodha. That means, if the activity of your mind ceases and you are still alert, you are in yoga.
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#157 In yoga, 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
#158 When everybody was talking about going to heaven, Gautama the Buddha said, You say everything is fine in heaven, so what will I do there? Let me go to hell and do something to help others, because anyway I cannot suffer. ~ Sadhguru
#159 When most people say life, they mean the accessories of life—their work, their family, their relationships, the homes they live in, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, or the gods they pray to. ~ Sadhguru
#160 When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ~ Sadhguru
#161 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
#162 Yoga does not ask you to work with anything other than what you know. It simply tells you that if the physical, mental, and energy bodies are perfectly aligned, you will find access to the bliss body. ~ Sadhguru
#163 Yoga is the science of creating inner situations exactly the way you want them. When you fine-tune yourself to such a point where everything functions beautifully within you, naturally the best of your abilities will flow out of you. ~ Sadhguru
#164 Why do you need to be pleasant within? The answer is self-evident. When you are in a pleasant inner state, you are naturally pleasant to everyone. ~ Sadhguru
#165 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. ~ Sadhguru
#166 You cannot transform the world without transforming the individual.
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#167 You come into this world with nothing and you go empty-handed. The wealth of life lies only in how you have allowed its experiences to enrich you. Filth can blossom into the fragrance of a flower. Manure can transform itself into the sweetness of a mango. No adversity is an impediment if you are in a state of conscious response. No matter what the nature of the situation you are in, it can only enhance your experience of life, if you allow it to. ~ Sadhguru
#168 You don’t have to make the heart beat, the liver perform all its complex chemistry, or even try to breathe; everything that is needed for your physical existence to manifest itself is happening on its own. The body is a pretty complete and self-contained. ~ Sadhguru
#169 You sit for just a few hours a day with your spine erect, you will see that it will have an unmistakable effect on your life.
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#170 Your destiny is written by you unconsciously. If you have mastery over your physical body, fifteen to twenty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your mind, fifty to sixty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your life energies, a hundred percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. ~ Sadhguru
#171 Young women have an advantage because they are also in sync with the lunar cycles. It is an advantage, but a lot of them treat it as a curse. It is a fantastic possibility that your body is both connected to the solar and the lunar cycles. Nature has granted this advantage to a woman because she has been entrusted with the responsibility of propagating the human race. So she has been given some extra privileges, which unfortunately have been perceived socially as disadvantages. ~ Sadhguru
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