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https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-14-2017#5#1002
O’ the blue-bodied cowherd – ever playful in love and war. Don’t you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-23-2017#6#1003
If there is love in your heart, it will guide you through your life. Love has its own intelligence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-21-2017#7#1004
Essentially, meditation means to experientially realize that you are not an individual bubble – you are a universe.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-19-2017#8#1005
Passion can choose. Compassion cannot choose – it includes everyone and everything.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-17-2017#9#1006
A thought does not take you anywhere – but it can set the course of your life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-15-2017#10#1007
Every citizen should participate in shaping the future of this nation. May you know what it means to create something beautiful.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-13-2017#11#1008
Across the subcontinent, our rivers are depleting at a dramatic pace. If all of us don’t do our bit now, we are headed for disaster.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-12-2017#0#1009
If the youth of the world stands up for raising inclusive consciousness, we can address every problem on the planet.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-10-2017#1#1010
Culturally and spiritually, this is the richest land on the planet. Our rivers are important for it to flourish; let our rivers flow.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-08-2017#2#1011
Rivers are not the property of particular people or entities – they belong to all life in this land.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-06-2017#3#1012
If you use more of anything than you need, on the overall scale of things, you are committing a crime against all life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-04-2017#4#1013
If we have sufficient trees, we will have sufficient rain, and our rivers will flow.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-02-2017#5#1014
Life is not accidental – everything happens between cause and effect.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-11-2017#6#1015
If with 7.5 billion people minus one, you feel terribly lonely, that’s not love – that’s attachment.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-09-2017#7#1016
I’m always intoxicated. No drink, no substance. There’s a way to create blissfulness from within.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-07-2017#8#1017
Only people who are deprived of love imagine that God is love. Love is a human emotion.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-05-2017#9#1018
As the very source of creation is within you, all solutions are within you too.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-03-2017#10#1019
Being human means to consciously do the best you can for everyone and everything you come in touch with.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-01-2017#11#1020
Our body is essentially soil and water. The quality of our soil and water determines the quality of our food, our body, and our life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-31-2017#0#1021
Spiritual process is a seeking. Religion means assuming things that you do not know.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-29-2017#1#1022
No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-27-2017#2#1023
When you come into this world, you have nothing but life in you. What you make out of it is up to you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-25-2017#3#1024
In pursuit of human wellbeing, we have ripped the planet apart, not knowing the only way to wellbeing is to dig deeper into ourselves.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-23-2017#4#1025
If you plant a tree, you are making a statement that you care for the world, the people, and life on the planet, beyond yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-21-2017#5#1026
The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-30-2017#6#1027
You do not have a duty towards anyone or anything. If you have love and care, you will do what is needed.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-28-2017#7#1028
If we are serious about saving the environment, we need to adjust our population growth to the natural resources that we have.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-26-2017#8#1029
Only when your activity is exuberant, will you keep crossing limits. Sport is exuberant activity, so crossing limits becomes natural.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-24-2017#9#1030
Power doesn’t corrupt. People are corrupt. When they get empowered, it becomes apparent.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-22-2017#10#1031
If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-20-2017#11#1032
The less rigid your personality, the more powerful your presence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-19-2017#0#1033
Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-17-2017#1#1034
Human population has multiplied irresponsibly in the last hundred years. Where there is no space, there is more friction.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-15-2017#2#1035
Old layers of karma can stick to you only if you keep adding new layers of karmic glue.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-13-2017#3#1036
If you love, love strong. If you hate, hate strong. Whatever the hell you do, live strong.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-11-2017#4#1037
You can never get everyone’s approval for what you want to do. So, don’t worry about it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-09-2017#5#1038
May you realize the true purpose and potential of life. On this Guru Purnima, Grace is upon you. I am with you. Blessings,
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-18-2017#6#1039
May your life happen out of your own clarity and ability, not by chance or out of the compassion and kindness of others.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-16-2017#7#1040
We all have the potential to live in blissfulness and inner wellbeing – if only we create the right kind of climate within ourselves.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-14-2017#8#1041
Prejudice is poison, fed to us from an early age by our families, religions, and society.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-12-2017#9#1042
Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-10-2017#10#1043
An ashram is not a refuge. It is a space for those who want to practice living homeless.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-08-2017#11#1044
Grace is subtle. Unless you are alert, you will miss it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-07-2017#0#1045
When I speak, I am not giving a teaching. I am only making people thirsty to know.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-05-2017#1#1046
Love is freedom and joy. Attachment is bondage and misery.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-03-2017#2#1047
Unless you can truly enhance their lives, you should not have children.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-01-2017#3#1048
It is the ability to bring out the best in others that makes you a leader.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-29-2017#4#1049
Whether you have a plan or believe in predictions is what makes the difference between success and chance.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-27-2017#5#1050
Without discrimination by caste, religion, gender, or race, we want to offer a spiritual process to every human being on the planet.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-06-2017#6#1051
Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-04-2017#7#1052
Nothing is predetermined – not even death. Everything has been created by you, though mostly unconsciously.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-02-2017#8#1053
The significance of being born human is that you have the potential to become limitless. It is up to you to live your Godliness.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-30-2017#9#1054
For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it – within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-28-2017#10#1055
If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-26-2017#11#1056
Whatever happens – ultimately, life corrects itself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-25-2017#0#1057
It is not the amount of action but the depth of experience that makes life rich and fulfilling.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-23-2017#1#1058
Being with people means to Include, Inspire, and Invigorate. To scrutinize, criticize, and castigate is not the way to go.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-21-2017#2#1059
Yoga is India’s gift to the world. If individual human beings transform themselves, the world will be transformed.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-19-2017#3#1060
Joy is not to be sought outside – it is intrinsic. If you do not mess up your mind, you will naturally be joyful.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-17-2017#4#1061
It is time we chose quality over quantity in our lives, in every sense. Only then can we save the planet.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-15-2017#5#1062
Whatever crisis is happening in your life, don’t make a crisis out of yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-24-2017#6#1063
The Dhyanalinga is like a live Guru. Its energies can ignite your spiritual longing, guide you, and deliver you to the Ultimate.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-22-2017#7#1064
Our lives are all connected. How healthy the plants and animals are today determines how healthy we will be tomorrow.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-20-2017#8#1065
You are a tiny speck in the universe. But this tiny speck has the potential to contain the whole cosmos.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-18-2017#9#1066
They say marriages are made in heaven. It is just that some people turn it into hell.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-16-2017#10#1067
Karma is not in your action – it is in your volition. It is not the content of your life but the context that creates karma.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-14-2017#11#1068
The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-13-2017#0#1069
Harmony in the world will happen only when human beings are truly harmonious within themselves.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-11-2017#1#1070
Life knows no failure. Failure exists only for those who are always comparing themselves with others.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-09-2017#2#1071
Money is only a means, not the goal.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-07-2017#3#1072
Propelled by rage, we substitute one injustice for another. Propelled by compassion, we do what is needed.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-05-2017#4#1073
Taking care of the environment is not an obligation – our environment is our life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-03-2017#5#1074
Only those who keep the garbage of their minds aside are truly capable of love and compassion.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-12-2017#6#1075
What you think about yourself, what others think about you is of no existential significance.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-10-2017#7#1076
Devotion is when you hold the wellbeing of others above your own.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-08-2017#8#1077
Logic can take you through the mundane. But if you want to know the magic of life, you need to transcend logic.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-06-2017#9#1078
They say “seeing is believing,” but everyone sees what they want to see.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-04-2017#10#1079
To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications – don’t let them rule you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-02-2017#11#1080
To go through life effortlessly, children need an atmosphere that nurtures inner strength.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-14-2022#0#1081
You do not like it when anger is directed at you. Then what makes you think it is a solution to direct anger at others.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-12-2022#1#1082
Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-10-2022#2#1083
Once you let your past decide how you experience the present, you have destroyed your future.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-08-2022#3#1084
Every longing is actually a longing for the infinite, finding expression in installments.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-06-2022#4#1085
Whatever your thought process or emotional process may be, it is just local gossip, very localized to you. Enjoy it if it is nice, but do not believe it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-04-2022#5#1086
The nature of your consciousness manifests in every cell of your body, every moment of your life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-13-2022#6#1087
With Yoga, not only your body should become flexible – your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-11-2022#7#1088
If you are in communion with Truth, your relationships will just be relationships, not attachments. You will know involvement but no entanglement.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-09-2022#8#1089
Body and mind are the surface of existence. When you realize their impermanence, you will orient yourself towards the source of existence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-07-2022#9#1090
If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-05-2022#10#1091
Pleasure is one level of pleasantness, joy is another. Pleasure is beautiful, but it is enslaving. Joy is wonderful; above all it is liberating.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-03-2022#11#1092
Your parents gave you a human body. Whether you want to be raised by them or grow into a full-blown life is your choice.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-01-2017#0#1093
Family or no family; city or forest – your external arrangements don’t decide how you are inside.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-30-2017#1#1094
Do not settle for a limited experience of life. Where there is a limitation, there is a possibility of breaking it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-28-2017#2#1095
Being in truth means simply being yourself. Don’t try to be someone else.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-26-2017#3#1096
I am not against wealth. I am not against comfort. I am against stagnation, because if you stagnate, you are only half alive.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-24-2017#4#1097
By going to the temple, mosque, or church, you do not become spiritual. You become spiritual only by turning inward.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-22-2017#5#1098
The universe is not human-centric. Every life form has a role to play – that’s the beauty of it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-31-2017#6#1099
Being alive is the greatest phenomenon, not just on this planet, but in the whole cosmos.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-29-2017#7#1100
What your consciousness is intensely focused on is what will manifest in your life and in the world around you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-27-2017#8#1101
Do you want to look good or feel good? How wonderful you feel within yourself is most important.