Quotes About Spirituality

in western societies people understand falling at somebody's feet as a kind of subjugation or slavery. In the yogic tradition, we never thought feet were any less than the hands. It was never seen that one part of the body is less than the other.

If you want to know the experiential dimensions of life, you will never know them with the petty process of thought. Even 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment.

Whenever the need to know any dimension of life presented itself, at that moment, the answers were always there within me. Life has always been like that for me.

The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the inner nature of your being.

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.

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru.

Once it happened…Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi, the second was a bhakti yogi, the third was a karma yogi, and the fourth was a kriya yogi.

Of all emotions, compassion is the highest that man can experience. When someone lives in compassion, not just love, only then he is a real seeker, because very easily love becomes attachment and a bias. Love can become a great prejudice against you, somebody else, or anything.

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.

you don't meditate, nothing will happen, but if you sit for meditation, so many things will start happening everywhere.

If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.

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.

One fundamental requirement for anybody who wishes to grow on the spiritual path is to have an un-deviated flow of energy towards one and only one goal in life: to attain to the highest and not settle for anything less than that.

It means beginning the journey from the psychological – maya – to the existential – Shi-va. And

All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

The hardest test I ever faced in my life was praying.

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