Looking for some wise words of encouragement from Sadhguru? We have rounded up some of the best Sadhguru Quotes, sayings, and wise words about love, life, relationships, spirituality, religion, death, marriage, meditation, fear, balance, mind and more to inspire you to a better life.
Jaggi Vasudev (1957) commonly known as Sadhguru is an Indian yogi, mystic, poet and New York Times, bestselling author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization which offers yoga programs around the world.
Sadhguru was conferred the Padma Vibhushan civilian award by the Government of India in 2017 in recognition of his contribution to the field of spiritualism.
Most Famous Sadhguru Quotes with Images
“Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.”
“Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.”
“Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.”
“Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.”
“Krishna says in the Gita, “The worst crime in the world is indecision.”
“Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.”
“Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”
“Spirituality is not a disability – it is a phenomenal empowerment of life”
“Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”
“Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.”
“The inner dimension is uncharted terrain; it is sensible to take directions. A guru is a live road map.”
“The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.”
“No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.”
“New, challenging situations are possibilities, not problems. A problem would be if nothing new happens to you.”
“Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.”
“The only problem that I have with people is they lack the needed intensity. If they were intense enough, this day, my work would be done.”
“Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.”
“The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.”
“The path is not difficult. It is very simple. If you are simple, it’s very simple. If you are all wound up, the path is very, very winding. That’s all it is.”
“Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of health and vitality to the system.”
“Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.”
“There is so much anger, sex, and drugs today just to have a little bit of intensity. The yogic science is about being absolutely intense, simply sitting there.”
“There is so much adventure that only a youth can experience. Youth is not the time to languish in pleasure – youth is the time for exploration and adventure”
“Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.”
“If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he’s spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don’t think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.”
“The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility.”
“Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.”
“Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.”
“Right now, you don’t have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.”
“Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.”
Inspirational Sadhguru Quotes on Life
“If you resist change, you resist life.”
“Life is not outside of you. You are life.”
“The only way you can taste life is with involvement.”
“Every opinion you have about anything can be a limiting identity.”
“Devotion is the sweetest emotion you can nurture within yourself.”
“Rest is the basis of all activity. Stillness is the basis of all Dynamism.”
“If you keep the past alive within you, you will become dead to the present.”
“There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.”
“With firm likes and dislikes, you shut your doors to the many possibilities of life.”
“The life within you cannot be unpleasant. Unpleasantness is created in the mind.”
“Repetition is cyclical. When you are going in circles, you are not going anywhere.”
“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”
“If you understand that desire is an endless process, it is a game you can play joyfully.”
“If you are joyful by your own nature, you will do your best, and that is all that matters.”
“Gender is given too much importance. We should be able to see humans just as humans.”
“The more you realize the smallness of your existence, the larger will become your presence.”
“People who are bursting with life do not need a purpose to live. Life is a purpose unto itself.”
“Life should touch you, even if life smothers you, it’s better than remaining untouched by life”
“If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.”
“When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow and mature.”
“‘I do not know’ is not a negative state of mind. Every discovery has come from this realization.”
“Death is something that happens only once in our lives. It is important that we conduct it well.”
“If your idea of trust is that others must behave as you expect, that is not trust – that is cunning.”
“If you have a child, all you have to do is create a loving, supportive, and invigorating atmosphere.”
“There is no need to be perfect, but are you a constant striving to be better. That is all that matters.”
“People are successful not necessarily because they work hard. They just do the right things in given situations.”
“When the need to be special is gone, that is when you are unique. Significance of life is in its uniqueness.”
“If you do not look up to anything, and you do not look down upon anything, you will see everything the way it is.”
“Courageous people do idiotic things. Fearful people do little. Fearless people see life as it is and do what is needed.”
“There is a lot more to life than your thoughts and emotions. Time to move from psychological space to life-scape.”
“Spirituality is not something you can do on the outside, in a temple, mosque, or church – it has to happen within yourself.”
“Diversity is the basis and strength of Natural Existence. It should also be a fundamental element of a vibrant social structure.”
“The masculine and the feminine are two aspects of who you are. If you are too identified with one part, you will be half a life.”
“Do not wait for problems to overwhelm you. Take action before problems come. Preemption is the Path to Safety and Success.”
“Whatever has been the highest experience in your life should become the centerpiece around which your life is structured.”
“We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.”
“Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.”
“Whether you are a man or a woman, unless the feminine becomes alive in you, you will never experience the finer aspects of life.”
“If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become immense. That is the beauty of being human.”
“But being on the spiritual path is not about making life pleasant. It’s about seeing how to transcend both the pleasant and the unpleasant.”
“This is the time of the year to get rid of all the unnecessary things – in your home, your body, mind, emotions – and start life afresh.”
“To create an outside situation, you need the cooperation of other people and forces. To create an inner situation, you only need yourself.”
“There is no point in making yourself believe everything is going to be all right. In doing your Best, you can leave this world a better place.”
“Being a leader does not mean dominating the situation. It means empowering people to do what they would not have imagined possible.”
“Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.”
“Never before has Humanity been as empowered as we are today. We can make this the most wonderful and impactful time in the history of Humanity”
“I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.”
“Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement.”
“Don’t think of this as your first step or last step. Just be here as a piece of life. That is the best way to be. You are not a young man; you are not an old man. You are just a piece of life.”
“Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.”
Best Sadhguru Quotes – Inner Engineering
“Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.”
“Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.”
“Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.”
To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Relief from something that you cannot hold within you is always the greatest pleasure, isn’t it? Whatever that thing may be!” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside. On” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“When most people say “life,” they mean the accessories of life—their work, their family, their relationships, the homes they live in, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, or the gods they pray to.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
“The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.” – Sadhguru, Inner Engineering
Best Sadhguru Quotes on Love & Relationships
“Love is not what you do. Love is the way you are.”
“When you are loving, you can do just whatever is needed.”
“Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
“The important thing is not that people love you but that you are loving.”
“People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.”
“The idea of marriage is to multiply joy. If you multiply your miseries, it’s a crime.”
“A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.”
“If you get too enamored with your own creation, you will miss the Creator’s creation.”
“You don’t climb in love, you don’t walk in love, you don’t stand in love, you fall in love.”
“When you have a deep sense of love for someone, it is easier to drop the fruit of action.”
“So compassion is not that which is bereft of passion, it’s a larger dimension of passion.”
“No relationship is absolute – it is always variable. You have to conduct it well on a daily basis.”
“If you fire up by your intelligence, you will see you can fall in love with anything that you wish.”
“Know the joy of being in the embrace of creation and loving intimacy with the source of creation.”
“Compassion is not condescending kindness. It is a passionate engagement with everything around you.”
“When you love someone, it is a privilege to do something for them. Service is a poor substitute for love.”
“If you want everyone to fall in love with you, the first thing is, you must fall in love with all of them.”
“Do not underestimate negative relationships. You have a deep bond with those you hate, fear, or envy.”
“One who is stuck in the realm of right and wrong, liking and disliking, will never know the texture of love.”
“If you want your relationship to work, constantly remind yourself that the other is more significant than you.”
“Love is a process of inclusion, once I include you as a part of me, I will be to you just the way I am to myself.”
“Love can solve problems, compassion can solve problems, and above all, sense can solve problems.”
“Being human means you are capable of caring for and looking at every life with a sense of tenderness.”
“Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.”
“If you already have a child, all you have to do is create a loving, supportive, and invigorating atmosphere.”
“You are not only bound to the people you like or love. Your bondage to those you dislike or hate is much deeper.”
“Only in those moments of love, can a man and woman really be together. Once that is not there, it is very difficult.”
“What you need to make your marriage successful is not the perfect person. What you need is absolute integrity.”
“Trust does not mean that others have to do things the way you expect them to. Trust means to become vulnerable.”
“Love is not a joy; it is a deep, wonderful pain. Everything within you should tear. Only then will you know what love is.”
“Your understanding of love has to evolve. You always think love means to hold. No. Love means to liberate and push forth.”
“Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.”
“Marriage means weaving two lives into one. Thinking, feeling, and living beyond yourself can be a stepping stone to Ultimate Union.”
“Maybe when you are angry then you cannot be loving, you can’t suddenly turn your anger into love, but the anger itself can be directed.”
“When you earn people’s love and respect by how you love and respect them, it not only enriches your business – it enriches your life.”
“In marriages, there are divergent expectations. The woman expects the man to change. The man expects the woman to never change.”
“If you are happy by your own nature, now relationships will become a means for you to express your happiness not to seek happiness.”
“Love is a beautiful thing. It’s the best thing you can do with your emotion. Your emotions should always be in the sweetest possible way.”
“I don’t want you to become benevolent. I want you to become full of gratitude. Benevolent people, after some time, become uncaring people.”
“Every action that we do is in some way to fulfill certain needs. If you see this, there is a possibility that you can grow into love as your natural quality.”
“Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion.”
“If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience. You realize love is not something that you do; love is the way you are.”
“A Guru creates his personality in such a way that people don’t know whether to love it or to hate it…this is not a human being. Either he is a devil or he must be Divine.”
“In everyone, there are some positive things and some negative things. If you embrace all this in your understanding, you can make the relationship the way you want it.”
“Humanity is at a crossroads. Something fundamental is shifting in the very way human beings are. Things that have given hope to humanity are crumbling and falling apart.”
“Someone says something nasty to you because something nasty is happening within them. They need your love, compassion, or distance. Do not let the spiral of nastiness suck you in.”
“One who is concerned about the possibility of his own suffering can never know true love and compassion. Only when you are no longer concerned about yourself can you truly love.”
“If you are forming relationships to seek happiness – you trying to squeeze happiness out of someone and that person trying to squeeze happiness out of you – this is going to be a painful relationship after some time.”
“People are trying to love. People are trying to be good. But, if you look at yourself, if I happen to meet you when you are very happy and joyful, I’m sure you are a very loving, generous, wonderful human being. This is true with every human being.”
“You’re not using your intelligence to reach the peak of your conciousness, to become peaceful and loving. You’re using your intelligence to drive yourself crazy. When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it’s just plain stupidity. It destroys life.”
Mystic Sadhguru Quotes on Joy, Mind, Gratitude
“You earn a living to live well, not to kill yourself with stress.”
“Empowered by life energy, imagination shall manifest as Reality.”
“You cannot get Joy. You are either joyful or you are not, that’s all.”
“An idle mind is Divine’s workshop. An idler’s mind is devil’s workshop.”
“Fear is simply because you are not living life – you are living in your mind.”
“If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?”
“Nothing wonderful is ever going to happen unless we actively make it happen.”
“The life force within you is always longing to become an exuberant joyfulness.”
“Thought and emotion are not separate entities. The way you think is the way you feel.”
“It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed that causes stress.”
“There is really no limit as to what one can do. Because capabilities can be constantly enhanced.”
“Happiness has always been an internal phenomenon. The source of your happiness is inside of you.”
“We are talking about shifting our lives from having a visitation from Joy to being the very source of Joy.”
“The basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – integrity of thought, emotion, and action.”
“Your logical mind is good enough to handle the mundane. If you want to enter the mystical, it is of no use.”
“If we want everyone to be well, we need to rethink everything we do and the way we are doing it in the world.”
“Joyfulness is not a fruit hanging from the sky that you reach out for; it is something that will play at your feet.”
“Thoughts and emotions come from the same source. Thoughts are the dry expressions of the mind, emotions are juicy.”
“Whenever you experience a certain amount of Joy, it always blossoms from within and finds an external expression.”
“As such, there is no right decision in life. If you make a decision and put your everything into it, it will turn out wonderfully.”
“One of the main reasons why you have become miserable is, instead of falling back into your Joy, you are trying to pursue Joy.”
“The essence of yoga, as we have said before, is just this—to arrive at that moment where there is a clear space between you and your mind.”
“As people get more educated and complex in their minds, their ability to suffer increases, because they can create a greater variety of sufferings.”
“Almost everything that a child learns is by example. If you do not set an example of joy, and you only talk about joy it doesn’t mean anything…”
“Nothing in existence is ever repeated – no two blades of grass are the same. Everything is fresh and unique – only the mind is in constant repetition.”
“Thoughts and emotions come from the same source. Thoughts are the dry expressions of the mind, emotions are juicy. The way you think is the way you feel.”
“Your mind is not your own. It is a complex amalgamation of all kinds of influences. The more you are identified with it, the further away you are from yourself.”
“Intention is one thing, execution is another. In your life, will you execute what you intend, or will you let things happen to you accidentally, is the big question.”
“Joyfulness doesn’t happen because everything is perfect but joyfulness happens because you are unwilling to subjugate your intelligence to what is happening around you.”
“If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good. Make use of your sadness to grow. When sadness sets in, if you become more compassionate, more caring, and more loving, you have some sense in you.”
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