Quotes from Sadhguru

If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative. If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday

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.

What then is the way out? 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.

Every thought that arises in the mind has its roots in data you have already accumulated.

The first thing is to stand up and be sensible. To handle this body, to handle this mind, to handle these emotions, things that are within you right now, to handle them sensibly. If

What kind of food you eat, how much you eat, how you eat, turning it from a compulsive pattern into a conscious process: this is the essence of fasting. Sadhana

The hardest life in the world is to be constantly putting yourself out into the world like you are joyful when you are not. When you are not happy, to show everybody that you are happy, it costs phenomenal amount of life.

Inner pleasantness is a surefire insurance for the making of a peaceful society and a joyful world.

The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside. On

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.

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.

Your psychological structure is a stone wall. 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.

What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who

All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life".

When any being calls or really yearns, the existence answers. If the thirst within you is strong enough, God always answers.

for many people, the more they think, the more incapable they become of smiling!

Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored.

Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The Creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you—these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created. If

Any fool will seek liberation when he is suffering. It takes enormous intelligence to seek liberation when everything is going well.

Only for a person who is living with duality there is good and bad karma.

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life.

The quality of your life is decided not by what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of car you drive or what kind of home you live in, but by how peaceful and joyful you are within yourself. This is essentially the quality of your life. Everything else is done to get there. If this does not happen, everything else goes waste.

If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don't, the mind can be a fantastic tool.