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https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-01-2015#5#1902
There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-10-2015#6#1903
Being a seeker of truth means refusing to make assumptions about things that you do not know.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-08-2015#7#1904
People who logically examine their relationships cannot sustain them. Two bodies, two minds, two emotions can never fit perfectly.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-06-2015#8#1905
Whether it is your body, your mind, or the world – the idea of keeping a distance from it is to have a better perspective of everything.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-04-2015#9#1906
The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. It’s like a game.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-02-2015#10#1907
If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-31-2015#11#1908
To generate untruth, you have to do a lot of things. For truth, there is nothing to do – anyway it is there.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-30-2015#0#1909
Don’t be dead now. That time will come. Now is the time to be alive.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-28-2015#1#1910
When you go to an Indian temple, it is just to behold an energy form. You want to take an imprint of the Divine within yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-26-2015#2#1911
The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-24-2015#3#1912
If you do not learn to consciously change your rhythm, you are like a broken record, repeating the same things over and over again.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-22-2015#4#1913
If you are content with who you are right now, you are not aware who you could be if you were willing to strive.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-20-2015#5#1914
Until you have become boundless, you cannot call yourself successful.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-29-2015#6#1915
Having expectations of others means you are trying to fix their lives. Don’t do that. Fix your own life – that is freedom.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-27-2015#7#1916
The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-25-2015#8#1917
The family is an example of how you can turn anything that is created for your wellbeing into a disadvantage.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-23-2015#9#1918
Realization does not take knowledge. It just takes eyes to see.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-21-2015#10#1919
You want to be loved because you feel incomplete. Otherwise, being loved can be quite a nuisance.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-19-2015#11#1920
Emotion is the juice of life. When out of control, it becomes madness.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-18-2015#0#1921
You can either cry about every little thing that happens to you, or you can transcend it. Please exercise your choice.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-16-2015#1#1922
As a person, you will always feel incomplete. As a being, as life, you are always complete.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-14-2015#2#1923
The future is something that does not exist in our experience, but it exists as a possibility.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-12-2015#3#1924
Intellect wants to conquer the truth. Devotion just embraces the truth. 
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-10-2015#4#1925
Most people will not step into tomorrow because they hold on to yesterday.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-08-2015#5#1926
Meditation is a means to realize the beauty of your existence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-17-2015#6#1927
A truly intelligent mind is neither influenced by memory nor deluded by imagination.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-15-2015#7#1928
The problem with the world is not greed – it is stinginess.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-13-2015#8#1929
Without the necessary energy, being aware is extremely difficult. That’s why sadhana – to stir up the energy.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-11-2015#9#1930
Education does not mean getting a certificate. It means enhancing yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-09-2015#10#1931
They say Kailash is the center of the universe. Not in geographical terms, but in terms of mystical knowledge it definitely is.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-07-2015#11#1932
A love affair is meaningful not because of what happens between two people but because of the sweetness that it fills you with.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-06-2015#0#1933
If everything you do is result-oriented, your very existence becomes purely functional.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-04-2015#1#1934
Gautama Buddha’s contribution towards raising human consciousness is unique and astounding. May you know Fullness on this Full Moon.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-02-2015#2#1935
Joy, peace, and love aren’t spiritual goals. They are the starting point for living sensibly.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-30-2015#3#1936
Inclusiveness is the fundamental solution to everything.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-28-2015#4#1937
You can either let the world live in the comfort of your shade, or you can always be dying to get into someone else’s shade.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-26-2015#5#1938
Once you go beyond the mind, there is no such thing as suffering.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-05-2015#6#1939
One who does not know ease is naturally in a state of dis-ease.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-03-2015#7#1940
Never do unto others what you do unto to yourself – until you become a blissful human being.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/may-01-2015#8#1941
If you do ordinary things with absolute involvement, you will become extra-ordinary.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-29-2015#9#1942
Whatever work needs to be done, whatever opportunity comes your way, whatever you have to share – this is the time, not tomorrow.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-27-2015#10#1943
This planet is the basis of your life. Then what makes you think you are animate and the planet is inanimate?
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-25-2015#11#1944
Yoga means breaking the cyclical process of life and making it a straight line.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-24-2015#0#1945
What you can count is of minimal importance in life. What you cannot count, that really counts.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-22-2015#1#1946
Mother Earth is so generous. If only we give her the chance, she will restore everything in absolute abundance and beauty.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-20-2015#2#1947
People have a completely messed up idea of what freedom is. Giving in to your compulsions is not freedom.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-18-2015#3#1948
There is no such thing as society. There are only individual human beings.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-16-2015#4#1949
Your education, your family, your home, and whatever else are just accessories. The most valuable thing in life is life itself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-14-2015#5#1950
Faith is born out of love. Belief is born out of calculation – it’s about safety, security, and convenience.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-23-2015#6#1951
Success is not in doing more. It’s in doing the right things.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-21-2015#7#1952
Anything that sustains and nurtures your life is divine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-19-2015#8#1953
The world needs you to be pleasant. But spiritual process is about transcendence, not good behavior.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-17-2015#9#1954
If you fully implement every aspect of Inner Engineering in your life, it’s a complete path by itself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-15-2015#10#1955
Without coming to terms with the limitations and possibilities of who you are, you can’t take the next step.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-13-2015#11#1956
Anger, fear, resentment are all by-products of compulsiveness. What you need to overcome is your compulsiveness.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-12-2015#0#1957
No involvement, no spiritual process. It is the involvement that does it, not a particular act.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-10-2015#1#1958
It is not your schedule which is killing you. It is just that you are horribly preoccupied with your thoughts and emotions.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-08-2015#2#1959
No-thing is spiritual. Whatever you perceive through the senses can only be physical.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-06-2015#3#1960
How big a shift happens depends on how many people push for it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-04-2015#4#1961
Keep a check on how much of you and your activity is conscious or unconscious. Self-audit is self-transformation.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-02-2015#5#1962
The most important thing right now is that worldwide, people in positions of power get to experience life beyond their own identity.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-11-2015#6#1963
Only body, mind, and emotions need company – that is the nature of the limited. If you go deeper, the limitless needs no company.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-09-2015#7#1964
The beauty of motherhood is not in reproduction but in inclusion – to experience another life as a part of yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-07-2015#8#1965
Health is a side effect of spirituality. If you are complete within yourself, being healthy is natural.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-05-2015#9#1966
Anyone who does sadhana intensely will see, slowly, as the energies move upward, the identification with the body recedes.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-03-2015#10#1967
Repetition is cyclical. When you are going in circles, you are not going anywhere.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/april-01-2015#11#1968
Maintaining cleanliness of body and mind is the first thing to do. Without that, life, and particularly spiritual process, can be a battle.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-31-2015#0#1969
Life is not about being better than someone else. It is about allowing yourself to grow to your fullest potential.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-29-2015#1#1970
If you torture yourself and everyone around you enough, you may get employment in hell.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-27-2015#2#1971
Bowing down to what seems powerful is natural. Bowing down to what seems weak and worthless – that’s great. That’s devotion.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-25-2015#3#1972
The idea of perfection is so messed up. Have you ever seen a perfect human being? And where is the need to put everyone into the same mold?
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-23-2015#4#1973
Society should not determine the nature of human consciousness. Human consciousness should determine the nature of society.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-21-2015#5#1974
The moment you conclude, you cannot perceive.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-30-2015#6#1975
Power doesn’t corrupt. People are corrupt. When they get empowered, it becomes apparent.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-28-2015#7#1976
The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-26-2015#8#1977
Nothing in life is a problem – everything is a possibility.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-24-2015#9#1978
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/march-22-2015#10#1979
Most people only get angry where there are no big consequences. This is cunning.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-20-2015#11#1980
At the spring equinox, the masculine and feminine within us are at equilibrium – a good day to transcend the identification with the body.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-19-2015#0#1981
Only because there is darkness, there can be light.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-17-2015#1#1982
There is no ego. There is just you – sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant; sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-15-2015#2#1983
Once your life is a conscious process, being blissful is natural, moving towards liberation is inevitable.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-13-2015#3#1984
Heaven is attractive only to those who have made a hell out of themselves.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-11-2015#4#1985
With technology, a time comes when every human being will have a voice. If they have a clear voice, they will be heard across the world.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-08-2015#5#1986
Rather than trying to fit a woman into a man’s world, we must create a society where the masculine and feminine have an equal role to play.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-18-2015#6#1987
If you become truly meditative, you will be beyond karma.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-16-2015#7#1988
Children only need inspiration. It’s the teachers who need correction.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-14-2015#8#1989
Yoga is about living strong, not just eating vegetables, twisting yourself out, or closing your eyes.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-12-2015#9#1990
In action, we can be discriminatory. In perception, there is no need to be discriminatory.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-10-2015#10#1991
There is no “this life,” “next life” – there is only life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-07-2015#11#1992
The simplest way to bring balance to your thoughts and emotions is unwavering commitment towards something.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-06-2015#0#1993
Holi is another expression of the exuberance of this culture. This exuberance is possible only because of conscious shedding of the past.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-04-2015#1#1994
When you have an important responsibility, you must have an inner strength that will not be changed or threatened by external situations.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-02-2015#2#1995
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/february-28-2015#3#1996
Whatever happens, you getting depressed is not a solution. You getting depressed would be one more problem.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/february-26-2015#4#1997
I have never been lonely because the Creator has never left me for a moment. He has never left anyone for a moment.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/february-24-2015#5#1998
Technology has no quality of its own. How we use it is what makes or breaks us.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-05-2015#6#1999
A devotee’s perception is way better than that of a person who intellectually dissects, because devotion is a way of embracing the universe.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-03-2015#7#2000
What the body really needs is restfulness, not sleep.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/march-01-2015#8#2001
Everywhere in the world today, people promote exclusiveness. If you promote exclusiveness, there can only be conflict.