Quotes from Sadhguru

Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.

There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.

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.

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.

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. An Israeli organic chemist, Raphael

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.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

When somebody said something similar two thousand years ago it worked for him—because of the fire in his heart, because of the truth that was burning within him, not because of the words he uttered.

My ability to respond is limitless

Hoy en día, en nombre de la civilización y la etiqueta, las personas educadas no suelen experimentar plenamente ninguna de sus emociones. No pueden llorar plenamente. No pueden reírse a carcajadas. Con el paso del tiempo, la frustración se apodera de ellos y se quedan sin alegría.

If you do not eat for a couple of days, you won't think about God. You will only think about food.

If you consciously accept this moment just the way it is, you arrive at a certain ease within yourself. Ease is a consequence of the relaxation of all you have created. You can, in turn, experience the whole of existence as yourself. Everything becomes a part of you, as creation in its very nature exists as one whole. Knowing this experience is yoga, or the ultimate union.

One of the biggest problems in the world today is loneliness.

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.

Mi habilidad para responder es ilimitada pero mi capacidad de acción es limitada. Soy plenamente responsable de todo lo que soy y todo lo que no soy; de mis capacidades e incapacidades; de mis alegrías y mis tristezas. Soy yo quien determina la naturaleza de mi experiencia en la vida y más allá de ella. Soy el generador de mi existencia».

The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. Human experience may be stimulated or catalyzed by external situations, but the source is within. Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. 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. Right

The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.

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.

A day is but a piece of time That lets us live and die. …This day let us live and Live totally. —SADHGURU

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.

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.

Have you seen some people riding on a piece of plastic they call a surfboard, doing incredible things?

Yoga is a journey toward a reality in which you experience the ultimate nature of existence as borderless unity.

Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.