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What is happening in your Mind is not Reality; it is important to differentiate between the two.
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https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/december-01-2015#9#1702
One who cannot listen can never learn. Listen not just with your ears but with your body, breath, and being.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-29-2015#10#1703
If you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you, the activity you need to perform in the world will not leave a scratch upon you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-27-2015#11#1704
Seriousness essentially comes from self-importance.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-26-2015#0#1705
If you stop judging what is important or not and pay full attention to everything, every door in the universe will open for you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-24-2015#1#1706
Control means to confine something within certain limits. Don’t control your mind – liberate it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-22-2015#2#1707
The problem is not with life. The problem is you have not taken charge of your mind.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-20-2015#3#1708
There are no chosen ones in the world. The Divine is equally involved with everyone and everything.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-18-2015#4#1709
It is absurd to divide the world based on surface-level conclusions. If you pay enough attention, the entire cosmos is one happening.  
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-16-2015#5#1710
Being a full-fledged human being means to live totally, every aspect, every moment of your life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-25-2015#6#1711
A lamp flame symbolizes consciousness or Mukti. We need 7 billion lamps – one for every human being.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-23-2015#7#1712
As a spiritual seeker, you are like a sailor, always wanting to go to a new place within yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-21-2015#8#1713
All through life, your physical body will age. But your energy body need not age – you can keep it like it was just born.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-19-2015#9#1714
In striving for what is good for you and everyone else, you shall know life.  
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-17-2015#10#1715
The only thing that should overwhelm you is the magnificence of life itself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-15-2015#11#1716
It is silly to think that globalization is our doing. This globe has always been one.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-14-2015#0#1717
Whether you like something or you dislike something ‒ either way, you exaggerate the reality.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-12-2015#1#1718
When hormones play up, they distort your whole vision. You don’t have to withdraw to a cave, but you must be able to see through this.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-10-2015#2#1719
On this Diwali, may your inner light grow and bring light all around. Love, light and laughter,
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-08-2015#3#1720
The life within you has no memory of any kind. It is just burning like a flame.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-06-2015#4#1721
Let life happen in ways that you have not imagined possible. Allow that which is beyond your imagination to happen to you.  
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-04-2015#5#1722
The mind is a tool for exploration, not for drawing conclusions.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-13-2015#6#1723
Life is in the detail. Just look at a flower or an ant, how intricately every piece of creation is engineered!
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-11-2015#7#1724
Yoga is a technology. If you learn to use it, it works – no matter where you come from or what you believe in or do not believe in.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-09-2015#8#1725
Everything is food if you are truly hungry. Everything is poison if you are overfed.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-07-2015#9#1726
If you stop identifying with things that you are not, your mind will become still. That’s all it takes to meditate.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-05-2015#10#1727
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-03-2015#11#1728
Attachment is a consequence of exclusiveness. The moment you choose between one and the other, you naturally get entangled.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-02-2015#0#1729
Handling your life consciously will determine the nature, context, and quality of your life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-31-2015#1#1730
It is my wish and my blessing that you find access to the inner dimension of who you are. It will be with you wherever you go.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-29-2015#2#1731
What hatha yoga does is, if you consciously hold the body in an asana, it can alter the way you think and feel and experience life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-27-2015#3#1732
The difference between knowledge, knowing, and wisdom: Knowledge can be acquired. Knowing is a realization. Wisdom, you have to earn.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-25-2015#4#1733
If your body and mind take instructions from you, to be healthy, to be peaceful, to be joyful, is a natural consequence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-23-2015#5#1734
In my experience, there is no past, there is no future. Everything simply is.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/november-01-2015#6#1735
If you love someone, you should do what they like for them. Not what you like.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-30-2015#7#1736
Celebration should not be limited to a particular occasion. Your whole life, your very existence should become a celebration.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-28-2015#8#1737
A large percentage of what is happening in the mind is just mental diarrhea – running compulsively, all the time.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-26-2015#9#1738
If there is no inclusiveness, there is no organic unity to life. This lack of organic unity causes endless suffering.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-24-2015#10#1739
Who you are in the world depends on the opinions of others – this is not important. What is important is who you are within yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-22-2015#11#1740
This is a journey from untruth to truth. The key to victory lies in knowing that who you are is beyond this body and mind.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-21-2015#0#1741
This day is about being in reverence to everything that contributes to your life. The most important devices are your body and mind.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-19-2015#1#1742
A Guru is someone who dispels the darkness in you. You can call him a light bulb if you want.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-17-2015#2#1743
Only a person who has lived totally can die gracefully.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-15-2015#3#1744
As long as we are divided in the name of religion, race, caste, gender, and nationality, there can be no true success for humanity.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-13-2015#4#1745
As the Sun moves southward in the Earth’s sky, it is time to celebrate the Divine Feminine.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-11-2015#5#1746
There are no certainties in physical existence. Everything is only a probability.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-20-2015#6#1747
Dharma is an observation of the laws by which life functions.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-18-2015#7#1748
Yoga is not about going to heaven. It is about making a heaven out of yourself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-16-2015#8#1749
Celebration is feminine. The feminine is exuberance. And that is how you should be every moment of your life – exuberantly alive.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-14-2015#9#1750
Devotion is not a concept, ideology, or act – it is an agent of dissolution.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-12-2015#10#1751
Without our ancestors, we would not exist. To value the contributions made by previous generations is wisdom.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-10-2015#11#1752
Mediocre people always think they are practical. But actually, they don’t have the courage to attempt anything else.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-18-2022#0#1753
Love is a doorway that opens up possibilities which you completely miss if you are in states of anger, resentment, frustration, and hatred.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-16-2022#1#1754
You do not have to ‘raise’ children. You have to give them space, love, and support to grow. Every human being is capable of a unique possibility.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-14-2022#2#1755
Human beings are missing a whole lot of life, simply because they are indoors most of the time.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-12-2022#3#1756
Only if the younger generation does things that the parents never imagined possible, can a society evolve.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-10-2022#4#1757
If you want your body and brain to work well, the first thing is to become joyful by your own nature.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-08-2022#5#1758
Everything we know as life is soil, including the fish in the ocean. Without addressing the soil, there is no way to address all the other issues.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-17-2022#6#1759
If you are not available to grace, no matter how much money you have, you will not live a beautiful life. This is not my curse – this is the way life works.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-15-2022#7#1760
You cannot live here without trusting existence. If you trust consciously, lovingly, that is devotion.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-13-2022#8#1761
Success does not come to you because you want it. Success comes to you because you do the right things.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-11-2022#9#1762
Saving Soil is no different from loving life around you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-09-2022#10#1763
Look clearly and deeply – beyond all compulsions of your body and mind – what it is that you really want to do with life – Just Do That.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/june-07-2022#11#1764
A fundamental flaw in human nature is we try to enshrine our differences without being aware of the essential unity of existence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-09-2015#0#1765
If you want transformation, the largest part has to happen in the body, because the body carries much more memory than the mind.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-07-2015#1#1766
Science should have been a quest to know, not to exploit creation.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-05-2015#2#1767
People are lazy because they do not know how to rest. If you are restful, you are ready for activity.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-03-2015#3#1768
Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-01-2015#4#1769
Instead of wasting your energy on that which cannot be changed, you need to focus on that which can be created.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-29-2015#5#1770
When your love, joy, and peace depend on someone else, there is no way you can be loving, joyful, and peaceful all the time.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-08-2015#6#1771
Emotions and thoughts are not separate entities. The way you think is the way you feel.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-06-2015#7#1772
Passion is like gasoline in the tank, but you also need a steering wheel to go where you want to go.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-04-2015#8#1773
Life is happening in unison with the whole existence. Only your personality is happening in exclusion.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/october-02-2015#9#1774
Out of commitment, humans can move mountains. One shining example is Mahatma Gandhi, whose commitment moved millions of people.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-30-2015#10#1775
It is time for humanity to stop and see if what we are doing is truly creating wellbeing or not.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-28-2015#11#1776
Whatever kind of situation you may cause, let yourself experience what happens to everyone who becomes part of it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-27-2015#0#1777
Life is neither a gift nor a punishment. It is just a phenomenon that you need to learn to ride.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-25-2015#1#1778
The intellect is like a knife – the sharper, the better. As long as you know how to handle it.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-23-2015#2#1779
I want the world to know that the originator of yoga is the Adiyogi, Shiva himself.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-21-2015#3#1780
Peace is the core of existence. If humans touch this core by turning inward, Peace shall prevail.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-19-2015#4#1781
If you want joy, you have to turn inward, because that is where it is generated.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-17-2015#5#1782
Leadership means partnership, cooperation, mentoring, and support. It does not mean dominance. Dominance is tyranny.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-26-2015#6#1783
The more security you seek, the more insecure you become.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-24-2015#7#1784
The spine of knowledge that the Adiyogi created is the source of almost everything you can call spiritual on the planet.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-22-2015#8#1785
My dream is to consecrate the whole world. No human being should live in uncared and energetically poor spaces.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-20-2015#9#1786
No one can achieve wellbeing through someone else’s suffering.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-18-2015#10#1787
Yoga does not mean just standing on your head or holding your breath. It means taking charge of your life.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-16-2015#11#1788
I don’t believe anything that anyone says. I look at them the way they are.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-15-2015#0#1789
Living in resentment is as violent as planting a bomb. The difference is just that the violence happens within you.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-13-2015#1#1790
Spiritual process is not a backward step. It is a leap forward to a place that others are yet to get to.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-11-2015#2#1791
Your experience of life does not depend on who or what is around you but on how you are.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-09-2015#3#1792
We have to make people realize that God doesn’t need soldiers who fight for him.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-07-2015#4#1793
There is no need to look at life in terms of right and wrong. But you must understand that for every action, there is a consequence.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-05-2015#5#1794
The deeper your connection with existence, the sweeter your experience of life. Krishna was a living embodiment of that.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-14-2015#6#1795
Don’t try to enhance your capabilities. Enhance yourself – then you will naturally have enhanced capabilities.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-12-2015#7#1796
Learning per se is always liberating. What is frustrating is when it is imposed.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-10-2015#8#1797
There is no better insight into someone’s teaching than looking at the way he lives.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-08-2015#9#1798
Fear is always about tomorrow, or the next moment, not about now.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-06-2015#10#1799
Anything you do joyfully is always effortless.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-04-2015#11#1800
A ball can change the world.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/quotes/date/september-03-2015#0#1801
Every aspect of my life is soaked in Devotion. Devotion not for a God above, but for all that is around me.