If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?

Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.

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.

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?

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top

Positive people with positive attitudes ignites energy in me

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points