The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

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.

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.

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.

We must cultivate our heads. But nurture our hearts.

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?