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.

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.

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.

I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.

I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence, In a secret place between two people, Almost always between two strangers

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.