Quotes from Sadhguru

Emotion is just the juicier part of the thought.

Shi-va is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence. In

The middle path is a way of not getting anywhere...

Moral of the story: bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind.

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.

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

in pursuit of human happiness we have turned this planet into a bonfire and people aren't even happy

your body and mind function at their best when you are in a pleasant state. It is said that if you can remain blissful for twenty-four hours, your intellectual capabilities can be almost doubled.

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.

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. Life

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, "I am responsible," you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, "I am not responsible," you will not have the ability to respond.

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.

Once you've tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready.

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

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

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.

Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.

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.

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.

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

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

Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands.

The fundamentalist impulse can creep up on a devotee in many ways. Devotion is the quickest path to the divine, but it also has its pitfalls. The tendency to turn literal, or dogmatic, or to believe that one's path or one's notion of the divine is superior to all others is a seductive challenge. This