329 quotes found
“You cannot still your mind - it is the nature of mind to keep moving. You can only be the stillness that is beyond the mind and be free from thoughts, yet watch the mind experiencing the true essen...”
“The world is perfect, and at the same time, it is in a constant state of unfolding. This is also true for you and me. Our quest for enlightenment is really just a re-connection with something that ...”
“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.”
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
“Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”
“This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator you can just discard him, dump him and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) Tha...”
“Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.”
“So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace,...”
“Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?”
“So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all the...”
“The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at everything the way it is. When you are in it, there is no way to dissect yourself. You...”
“Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in...”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...”
“Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.”
“Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.”
“I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes...”
“Some people would rather be right than free.”
“This thing I am feeling, Im almost certain, is the closest Ill ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.”
“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for...”
