Quotes About Existence

Love is not something you do; it is just the way you are.

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.

the ability to respond is the basis of life.

In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.

Karma is the natural basis of all existence. It is not a law that is imposed from above. It does not allow us to outsource our responsibility anywhere else; it does not allow us to blame our parents, our teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and, above all, the nature of our experience of life.

This speck of human life is so insignificant, and still the very source of creation is active in it. The Creator still finds it worthwhile to be active in this speck. That means there must be something else other than the speck, isn't it?

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

This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.

life doesn't seem to end with survival; life begins with survival.

becomes experiential for you, you explode into the oneness of existence. This is yoga, the ultimate union.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of the unaware, because if you are aware, it is life, life and life alone—moving from one dimension of Existence to another.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

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.

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own.

you were not just born one day. It took a little over nine months before you could become a full life. Similarly, even one's exit does not happen just like that. Life exits the body in stages. Usually