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https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-01-2015#1#1802
To live by the knowledge of the past means to forsake the possibility of being aware of the present.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-30-2015#2#1803
If you try to use fewer words to say what you need to say, you will become conscious of your speech, and in turn of your thoughts.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-28-2015#3#1804
If you want to receive, you have to give. This is not a marketplace rule. This is the way of life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-26-2015#4#1805
Only if intelligence, sensitivity, and perception become the most valued aspects of life, will there be gender equality.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-24-2015#5#1806
The need for meaning is only of the mind. Life has no need for meaning. You are alive – that’s beautiful, and that’s it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-02-2015#6#1807
We can exist here just as a piece of creation or as the source of creation. This is the choice we need to exercise.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-31-2015#7#1808
It takes all kinds of people to make the world beautiful. You can do it too.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-29-2015#8#1809
Yoga is about shifting your investments from your body, mind, and emotions to your being – from imagination to reality.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-27-2015#9#1810
If you look at the Earth from another part of the universe, we are celestial beings. It’s just a question of perspective.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-25-2015#10#1811
In yoga, big experiences only serve a single purpose – to keep you on the path.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-23-2015#11#1812
My whole work is to empower people to go ahead, not follow me.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-22-2015#0#1813
A seeker does not aspire to meet the Divine but to become the Divine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-20-2015#1#1814
Technology has made us superhuman in capability. Without the necessary inclusiveness, this can be disastrous.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-18-2015#2#1815
Success will come easy once you function at your full potential.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-16-2015#3#1816
Time is slipping away for all of us at the same pace. You cannot manage time, but you can manage your energy.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-14-2015#4#1817
The only doorway for you to know life is yourself. Keep it open.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-12-2015#5#1818
Everyone wants to be joyful. People keep falling into pits because they do not have the necessary energy to keep up their joy.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-21-2015#6#1819
Ignorance is not a problem ‒ false knowledge is.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-19-2015#7#1820
To know the profoundness of love, at least a part of you should fall. Otherwise, there is no room for anyone else.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-17-2015#8#1821
To be a full-fledged human being is to respond to every life around you to the best of your ability.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-15-2015#9#1822
The unique characteristic of this nation has always been that we are seekers of truth and liberation. Mukti is the highest goal.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-13-2015#10#1823
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/august-11-2015#11#1824
The more human intellect blossoms, the less room there will be for belief systems.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-10-2015#0#1825
The wedding itself is not important. The focus should be on what you make out of it later.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-08-2015#1#1826
Sleep is a question of ease. If you are totally at ease, your sleep quality will go up and your sleep quota will go down.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-06-2015#2#1827
Every human being has some sort of genius, but they destroy it by trying to be like someone else.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-04-2015#3#1828
It is important to neither look up to anything, nor to look down on anything. Seeing everything the way it is, is true vision.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-02-2015#4#1829
If you try to squeeze joy out of people, only pain will come.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-31-2015#5#1830
The Grace of the Guru is in abundance on this day. If you are willing, every door in existence is open. I am with you. Love & Grace
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-09-2015#6#1831
Whether it is your body, your mind, or your life energies ‒ the more you use them, the better they get.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-07-2015#7#1832
Don’t hold back your love, your joy, and your exuberance. Only what you give becomes your quality, not what you hold back.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-05-2015#8#1833
To play is to live, and to live is to play.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-03-2015#9#1834
Integrity means that there is coherence between what you say, what you do, what you think, and how you feel about life around you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/august-01-2015#10#1835
You can become much more alive, but you cannot become more than life. Explore the many dimensions of life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-30-2015#11#1836
However simple the sadhana is, if you work at it every day, slowly, step-by-step, it will create a new level of freedom within you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-29-2015#0#1837
It is emotions that make your life flow. They only become a problem when they go out of control.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-27-2015#1#1838
Whatever happens, the question is, are you becoming a better human being – more stable, more joyful, more clear within yourself?
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-25-2015#2#1839
When you open your heart to give, the Grace of the Divine invariably seeps into it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-23-2015#3#1840
We need to raise our children to be true contributions to the world. The next generation should be better than us.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-21-2015#4#1841
Blissfulness is a pleasant state of life energies that cannot be disturbed by physical, mental, or emotional factors.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-19-2015#5#1842
The only way to get in touch with reality is to pay attention without making conclusions.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-28-2015#6#1843
Your personality is a fake representation of yourself. The more you invest in it, the more incomplete and insecure you feel.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-26-2015#7#1844
There are no disasters of nature. The disaster is excessive human population.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-24-2015#8#1845
There is so much in this cosmos that is sound, and there is so much more that is silence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-22-2015#9#1846
Fear, anger, misery, frustration, depression, and despair are all products of a mind that you have not taken charge of.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-20-2015#10#1847
You can either live logically or magically – it’s your choice.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-18-2015#11#1848
When you love someone, it is a privilege to do something for them. Service is a poor substitute for love.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-17-2015#0#1849
Tradition is not about imitating previous generations. It is about learning from their experience.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-15-2015#1#1850
Consciousness is not an act, not an idea, not even a quality – it is the very basis of creation.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-13-2015#2#1851
Your brain activity, your body chemistry, even your genetic makeup can be changed by practicing yoga.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-11-2015#3#1852
It is not my ideology that we should constantly evolve and transform. It is the way of existence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-09-2015#4#1853
Doubt is good – it means you are searching for truth. Suspicion is sickness.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-07-2015#5#1854
Your body can take a quantum leap, your energies can take a quantum leap, but the transformation of the mind is always incremental.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-16-2015#6#1855
Whatever has been the highest experience in your life should become the centerpiece around which your life is structured.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-14-2015#7#1856
Don’t fight your cravings for sweets. If you yourself turn sweet, sweets will lose their attraction.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-12-2015#8#1857
Monsoon is one of the most intense experiences on the planet. When the sky speaks, it is time to listen.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-10-2015#9#1858
A complete human being is in equilibrium between the masculine and the feminine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-08-2015#10#1859
When your being is soaked in devotion, even a piece of stone will become divine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-06-2015#11#1860
Once you have no problem making mistakes, admitting them, and correcting them, hardly any mistakes will happen.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-05-2015#0#1861
Spiritual process is not about going to heaven someday. It is about knowing life in all its profoundness.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-03-2015#1#1862
Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-01-2015#2#1863
Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-29-2015#3#1864
Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang – it is an ongoing process.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-27-2015#4#1865
Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-25-2015#5#1866
I am neither modern nor ancient – just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-04-2015#6#1867
You cannot stand in love, you cannot climb in love, you cannot fly in love – you can only fall in love.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/july-02-2015#7#1868
Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-30-2015#8#1869
Joys come and go like a pleasant breeze. It’s the miseries that stick in you like thorns – until you realize that it’s all your doing.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-28-2015#9#1870
A spouse is not a destination but a fellow traveler.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-26-2015#10#1871
“This moment” is not an idea. It is the only reality.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-24-2015#11#1872
The Dhyanalinga embodies all the exuberance of life, and yet it is Beyond that.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-23-2015#0#1873
If you stand on the garbage heap of your mind, your feet will never touch the ground.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-21-2015#1#1874
The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means – not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-19-2015#2#1875
Leaders should not stand in front of the people. They should stand behind the people.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-17-2015#3#1876
Individuals should shape their lives according to their particular needs, not according to social trends.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-15-2015#4#1877
Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changes.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-13-2015#5#1878
All that moves exhausts itself eventually. Only that which is still is for always.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-22-2015#6#1879
Time is not money. Time is life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-20-2015#7#1880
If you notice something good, you must make it grow – whether it is within you or around you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-18-2015#8#1881
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/june-16-2015#9#1882
India is a very organic chaos, and that is its strength.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-14-2015#10#1883
If you are too full of yourself, life has to knead you. There is no other treatment.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-12-2015#11#1884
All the problems on the planet can essentially be reduced to one thing: misaligned human beings, misaligned with all there Is.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-06-2022#0#1885
When people say or do ugly things to you, it takes sense to look beyond that and walk gracefully.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-04-2022#1#1886
People are not suffering life. They are suffering the two most fantastic faculties that human beings alone have – a vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-02-2022#2#1887
Those who achieve things by luck always live with the fear of losing it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-31-2022#3#1888
The problem is not our intelligence but our unconscious, compulsive behavior. It is time we create a Conscious Planet.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-29-2022#4#1889
If you create the right kind of atmosphere within you and around you, existence will respond to you in a wonderful way.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-27-2022#5#1890
When someone else can make you happy or unhappy, is it not the worst kind of slavery. To know that the source of all human experience is within is liberation.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-05-2022#6#1891
We are the environment. We are an extension of this earth. The ingredients of life are packed into the Air that we breath, Water that we drink, Sunlight and Soil. Save Soil.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-03-2022#7#1892
The more opinions you have, the less you experience and know life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-01-2022#8#1893
Spiritual process means life is happening fully and vibrantly – not just physically, mentally, and emotionally – on all levels.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-30-2022#9#1894
When you attach too much value to your thoughts and emotions, you cannot see life the way it is.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-28-2022#10#1895
As a human being, you come with the whole range of possibilities – from the deepest hell to the highest states within yourself. It is up to you which one you choose to explore.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-26-2022#11#1896
The life within you is the only real thing – everything else is just a projection.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-11-2015#0#1897
Life is not about pushing your way through. Life is about allowing life to push through you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-09-2015#1#1898
The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from life you become.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-07-2015#2#1899
We don’t have to seek new economic systems. We have to transform the people who run them.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-05-2015#3#1900
The planet is not in peril. What is in peril is human life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-03-2015#4#1901
You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.