Action quotes by Sadhguru
For every action you perform there is a consequence. Most people are not willing to face the consequences when they come; Anybody who is not willing to joyfully accept the consequences that come to them for whatever actions they perform is just a fool
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What is good, what is bad is only contextual for those times and those societies at a certain time, because good and bad is judged by what consequences it generates. It is not by the action
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If you do something for your child it's a joy. If you do something for the child on the street, it's your duty that you’re fulfilling. When heart is barren, when your heart is bereft of love, then only you can perform duty.
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A peaceful being does not mean a passive being. Especially the youth of the world tend to understand peace as passivity, and violence as action. That's not true. You can be very peaceful within yourself and still do whatever is needed. In fact, whatever is needed can be done well only if you are peaceful within yourself
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a human being will know the beauty, pleasure and the joy of action only when he has no need for activity
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If you become a full-fledged life, everything that you do will be useful for everybody around you and everything around you. Instead of becoming a full-fledged life you are trying to pretend with duty, with morality, with ethic and all kinds of things. You’re trying to imitate life, you are trying to imitate a good life; it's not going to work.
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If you do things with willpower, you may get to do things, but at the end of the day you will have a long face. Instead of trying to do this with willpower, you do it with devotion, you do it with love. Not because you have to do, but because you really want to do
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Being able to shower affection on anyone without having a need for affection yourself - that's freedom
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Good' and 'bad' are judged by what consequences they generate; it is not by the action.
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Anything in life, if you are doing it compulsively it becomes ugly, if you are doing it consciously, it can be made beautiful, everything can be turned into an ugly mess if you do it compulsively.Life Compulsion Awareness Consciousness
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Reaching out to another human being need not happen because you have taken a vow 'I am going to do it' keep your humanity active anyway it will happen
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first establish yourself within you, then act. Then no action is a problem - you can fight a war, you can act, you can be a priest in the temple, you can cook, you can sweep - it doesn’t matter what you do, but first establish yourself and do whatever you want
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Short Quotes
No job is inherently stressful. What causes stress is our compulsive reaction to challenging situations
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You may take the right direction, but if you do not go far enough, you will not get anywhere
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What you do is not the point. It is the level of involvement within you which transforms youShort Transformation Involvement
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Establish yourself in yoga – then act. Beautiful things will come out of it.
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When you are doing everything with great passion, everyone around you will be moved
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A situation becomes stressful only when you compulsively react to it.
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How alive, active, passionate, or even ecstatic you are simply depends on your level of intensity
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Risk is in the eye of the beholder. For the one who does it, it could be calibrated action
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No one can cause mental pain to you. It is you – in reaction to something that happens around you
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Once you learn to function at the highest possible level, everything will become a play
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Who you are should be established by the way you are within yourself, not by what you do
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In action, we can be discriminatory. In perception, there is no need to be discriminatory.
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The true joy of action is known only to that person who has no need for action.
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If you notice something good, you must make it grow - whether it is within you or around you
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Life Quotes
There is no need to do any duty in this world because the duty will bring boredom to everybody and burdensome-ness to you. If you are in an inclusive state of experience, every opportunity you get to do something is wonderful for you. To the limits you will do whatever you can do. Is it your duty? It is not your duty, it is your life
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There is no such thing as right and wrong in life. The question is, are your actions appropriate and inclusive.Life Perspective Inclusiveness
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Whatever action you perform in your life, there is a consequence to it. There is no such thing as you must perform only this type of action and you must not perform another type of action. You can do anything. But you must be in a state to accept the consequences joyously.
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If you are in a state of reaction, anyone or anything can take charge of your life. Conscious response is the way forward.
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It is not the amount of action but the depth of experience that makes life rich and fulfilling
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Success is the sweetest thing in human life, whether it’s material, economic, spiritual, whatever. Whatever may be an individual’s endeavor, the fruit of everybody’s action is success in that action. The ultimate goal of every action is success
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Why are you performing one action after another? It is towards fulfillment. But life has not attained any fulfillment. Fulfillment will not come because of some action that you perform.
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Decide on something that you can do and that you will do. This is how to transform your life- by taking small stepsLife Willingness Transformation
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What you do does not decide the quality of your life. It is how you do it which decides the quality of your life
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You are an extremely fortunate human being if action and receptivity both have come into your life at the same time
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If you act without establishing yourself in Yoga, then your action will become an entanglement, it doesn't matter what you are doing,
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Karma doesn't mean something that drops upon you from somewhere, Karma means your action, it's your making, it's your doing.
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If you function with your humanity, not fixing your actions but only looking for a consequence, that is best for everybody, whatever is needed you will do and that's how it should be
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Instead of fixing your actions as good and bad, if you operate out of your humanity you are always looking for a good consequence for the maximum number of people. In that your actions will come out of your intelligence, not out of your morality.
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You have no duty in this world; you can do whatever you want. Only thing is whatever you do, there is consequence. Whatever the consequence if you are willing to joyfully take the consequence, do whatever you want. But if the consequence is unpleasant, you are going to cry, if you are that kind, control the action. It's as simple as that
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Every action will produce a certain kind of consequence in our lives. If you can handle any kind of consequence joyfully, do whatever you please, but when things go wrong or when things become unpleasant, you are going to suffer, if that is your case then you must, you know, regulate the activity that you perform.
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If you stir up the humanity within you, you will do the most sensible thing that’s needed for that moment and that's all that matters that your actions are in context with the realities in which you exist. And the context is always changing
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Love is not about somebody, Love is not an action. It is not something that you do, it is something that you can become
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If with every single act that you do, you create what you care for, then whatever you get or do not get, your life is beautiful.
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If you see someone doing something wrong, condemn the action, not the person
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It is never what you do which entangles you. It is the expectation of what you should get which entangles you.
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Guilt comes from a twisted sense of integrity. You are judging others by their actions, but you cannot stop yourself from doing the same things.
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Every single action that we perform on this planet springs from an aspiration to be happy because that is your original nature
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If your goal and actions are right, and you keep going the same way, then the same people who are talking about you, the same people who are criticizing you, will venerate you in ten years' time. That is how life is.
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With every transaction we have with each other, what is my profit is your loss, and what is my loss is your profit. It is always give-and-take; someone makes a little more, someone a little less. This is bound to happen. If we get angry and disturbed within ourselves whenever we make a little less in a transaction, peace is not going to happen.
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When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in desperate action. When someone is in desperate action, you can't tell him not to do this or that. He will find devious ways to do it
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It's always better to handle things around you, rather than trying to handle things somewhere else, because then, you'll just dissipate your energies. You'll waste your life talking about it; not doing anything about it.
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Only if you have known intense action can you know inaction. People who are always resting in their life must be experts about rest, isn't it? But that is not the truth. Only a man who works intensely can know what rest is.
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Do not wait for problems to overwhelm you. Take action before problems come. Preemption is the Path to Safety and Success
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If you want to bake bread, how much of it do you do, how much of it do you allow? There is an equal proportion of both. If you do not knead it hard enough, if you do not work to load the oven properly, if you do not set the right temperatures, which is all your doing, it's not going to happen. But if you’re not willing to allow,you will not have bread
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If you take one little step (in the spiritual direction) it's worth all the scriptures on the planet. Do it before it's too late.
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Every word you utter, every action you take in your life, is it for everyone’s well-being, or is it just about you? Just fix this one thing
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My integrity is not of Morality but of my Humanity. In thought, emotion and action if you include well-being of all, do whatever you want
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Whatever you do or give, one thing is most important – that you do it with a truly loving heart.
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Simply making an effort does not get you anywhere. It has to be the right kind of action, timing, and place
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Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone’s wellbeing or for your own benefit?
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When a person suffers, it is natural for another person to be sensitive to his suffering. This much sensitivity and this much humanity exists in everyone. But we have put our sensitivity and our humanity out of action
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Just labor is not going to get you somewhere, right kind of action, the right timing, right place, all this is important
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Some are waiting for gods to do things for them; some are trying to do everything by themselves. You are extremely fortunate if action & receptivity both have come into your life at the same time; that you know how to perform action, everything that you can do you will do, but you have the sense & the gracefulness to sit and wait for that which you cannot do
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To be able to do everything that’s needed - having the necessary tools and the empowerment to do things about your life, at the same time having the necessary sense and grace to wait and be able to receive, both these things need to happen
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There are no bad things and good things. If you really look at it carefully, there are no bad things and good things; people perform actions, some actions produce miserable consequences, some produce wonderful consequences, that's all it is
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Your body & mind are not taking instructions from you, if these two things were taking instructions from you - if you want action, intense action, do not want action, absolute stillness. Both would be possible
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Our engagement with Environment has become too one-sided. As we consume, there needs to be the responsibility of compensatory action
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Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of Action of body and mind.
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One who cannot laugh, cannot meditate. Laughter is a certain exuberance of your energy. Meditation is ultimate exuberance of your energy without physical action.
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The most phenomenal beings were not born. They happened because they dropped just one calculation from their lives - “What about me?”
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Idiots do things they don’t like. Intelligent ones do what they love. Geniuses learn to do what is needed joyfully
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How you are in this moment, both mentally and emotionally, manifests in every action that you perform
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If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense
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One aspect of yoga is to take all those things which are involuntary, into our conscious or voluntary action
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This is what being youth means, that you are not willing to settle for false things. You want to find out what is it that really works
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From earth we seep, and shall seep back to earth, in between, if restfulness is your mode of action, blessed you are, blessed you are
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Always do the best you can for whoever is around you, because tomorrow, either they may be gone, or you may be gone.
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There are two kinds of people - those who make things happen, and those who enjoy it if it happens well and complain if it doesn’t.
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When you are joyous by your nature, your actions will rise to a completely different level
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Don't be a spectator, become an active participant in making what the world will beInspirational Short Involvement World
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If you think you can love someone 99%, you have not known love at all. The same goes for any kind of action.
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The accumulation of karma is not in the activity you perform. It is in the volition or the intention of your action.
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Karma yoga does not mean service. It means transcending the compulsiveness of action
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See how you can be of maximum use to the people around you - then you will naturally act appropriately.
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When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating
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You may have great intentions, you may have great ambitions, you may have many desires, but, fundamentally, everything that you DO in this world spells out who you really are within
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Karma means action. From the day we were born whatever action we did has led us to become the kind of person we are now.
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Just because somebody else is doing something, you don't have to attempt it or do it. You do not know the kind of energy they have.
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If we care at all about the generations that will inhabit this planet after us, we must address desertification with urgency; with policy changes & concerted global action. Let's make it happen.
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The quality and quantity of your harvest is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of your striving
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A large part of India’s land which was one of the world’s most fertile, is on the verge of becoming desert. 40% of India’s soil will become uncultivable in 25 years unless we take positive action now
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There has to be more seriousness about ecological solutions. If we do not take corrective action right now, we will pass on a legacy which we will be ashamed of & which we will be accused of & hated for by future generationsTruth Children Solution Ecology
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Good intentions are not enough. It takes the right action, performed with the right consciousness, to produce the necessary results
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Every action you perform is a contribution to some aspect of this world. Being conscious of that should keep you inspired
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Karma means both action and memory. There is no memory without action and no action without memory
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People always kept account of money and things that they have, but very few people kept accounts of how they are
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Karma is not in your action – it is in your volition. It is not the content of your life but the context that creates karma
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If you act out of your humanity, you will always be inclusive, and you will always do the right thing
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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
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Any human being is active to his maximum capacity only when he is very pleasant within himself
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I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.
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Do not start something that you cannot handle.This is not about good and bad; this is just about living your life sensibly. Now you don't pick up a rock that you cannot carry - it is as simple as that. You pick up something that you can handle
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Your idea of good and bad has been taught to you. You
have imbibed it from the social atmosphere in which you have lived.
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A man who does not know action - real action, intense action - can never move into inaction.
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The more you become conscious of your actions, the more you gain control over what happens within you and, to a large extent, around you.
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Action is not something that you decide. You just decide your intent. Action, the world will decide how much of what.
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Every moment of your life, you perform action – physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma
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When so much is happening unconsciously, the results that happen out of that unconscious action, you try to attribute it to something.
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With every single action we perform, with every thought and emotion we generate, we can create a better situation around us.
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Intent, thought, emotion, attitude and actions are only consequences of our consciousness
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The karma is not made in physical action; it is made only by volition
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