89 quotes found
Yogi and author · Indian · 1957
Indian yogi and author (born 1957)
“When you are seeking happiness through your action, you are always enslaved to the external situation. As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suf...”
“There is something else which needs to be looked at beyond the dimension of the body and mind. If that dimension is not experienced, once you have come in the human form, if you do not experience y...”
“Your joy keeps crashing down repeatedly. It doesn't matter how many times you think 'This is it', it keeps falling down simply because you don't understand the mechanics of it.”
“If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?”
“If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery an...”
“Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. Th...”
“If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves.”
“In the case of Isha, the process will last in a very active way for six hundred to seven hundred years. After that, it will continue in a lowered way. But the energy part of it is indestructible. T...”
“This life for me is an endeavor to help people manifest their divinity.”
“True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.”
“Awareness is aliveness.”
“How aware you are is how alive you are.”
“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”
“As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, the many religions of the world are an expression of one divine source.”
“Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.”
“Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.”
“Whenever you say, I do not know something, you are flexible. Whenever you think, I know it, you become rigid. This rigidity is not just attitude; it percolates into every aspect of your life. This ...”
“How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely ma...”
“Even if I erase all your memory, still you will be here. Yes? Your family will disappear, your status will disappear, your business will disappear, everything that you own in the world will disappe...”
“Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen, that's all. Does it mean to say - I have to just sit and wait and som...”