“To perform your activity in the world, to be successful in whatever you are doing, to do anything well in your life, you need clarity, not confidence.” – Sadhguru
“If you try to be devout you will become deceptive. But if you come to a certain level of experience, devotion becomes a natural part of you.” – Sadhguru
“When you say luck, it is something you cannot do anything about. God is also not something you can do anything about. The only thing that is in your hands is effort.” – Sadhguru
“You must be able to design your destiny. If this has to happen, you have to take charge of the inner dimension of who you are.” – Sadhguru
“The feminine is about flowering, relaxing, and living, not about getting.” – Sadhguru
“We have a very elaborate system of how to keep everyone’s life sufficiently disturbed but not too disturbed so that they will run away.” – Sadhguru
“A consecrated space is essentially a cultured situation that brings forth the natural longing of life.” – Sadhguru
“People are always thinking in terms of, “Where shall I get entangled?” It is not a question of where you should get entangled, it is a question of where you should get involved.” – Sadhguru
“There are also other dimensions to yoga. When you activate your energies, you can function in a different way.” – Sadhguru
“Yoga has been expressed in the form of a science without stories attached to it, but if you look at it in a deeper sense, yoga and the Shiva Purana cannot be separated.” – Sadhguru
“If you look at all the activity that you are doing in your life; all the activity that every human being is pursuing in his life, actually everything is being done in pursuit of happiness.” – Sadhguru
“The existence that one is able to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch through the five senses is essentially a product of reverberations, a play of sound or nada.” – Sadhguru
“The Shiva Purana is the highest science of elevating human nature to the very peak of consciousness, expressed in the form of very beautiful stories.” – Sadhguru
“The body and mind of a human being are also reverberations. But body and mind are not an end in themselves—they are just the outer peel of a possibility.” – Sadhguru
“Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone’s well-being or for your own benefit?” – Sadhguru
“You should not be better or worse than anyone else. You must be the best that you can be–that is all.” – Sadhguru
“There are only two ways for your mind to be right now. There’s no such thing as ‘let go’ in your mind. Either it is confused or it has made some conclusion. I always prefer to have you confused rather than being in some stupid conclusion about what it is.” – Sadhguru
“Look back and see what is the most peaceful and joyful moment you have known in your life. Let’s start from there. Let us see that as your original nature right now. It is not, but at least let us mentally assume that, ‘That is the way I am, but for some reason, I have gotten lost.’” – Sadhguru
“If you work five or ten years for your security, that’s okay. But if you are going to work all your life for your security, you are seeking death because death is the only secure thing in existence. Life is never secure.” – Sadhguru
“From my perspective, the world is facing challenges. Funneling resources into the military isn’t a wise choice. Why? Because devoting assets to destructive purposes doesn’t contribute to global progress.” – Sadhguru
