Being Human quotes by Sadhguru
Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door is blown away. Too busy gold-plating the cage to soar to their ultimate possibility.Inspirational Life Spirituality Possibility
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Before you and I came here on this planet, a countless number of people have walked on this planet, where are they? All topsoil. You will also be topsoil unless someone buries you real deep fearing you may rise from the dead
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Once you have come as a human, you are not trapped anymore, other creatures are trapped in their own instincts, beyond that they cannot think, you have instincts for survival, but you have the possibility of going beyond instincts
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Human beings are not suffering their bondage, they are suffering their freedom
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Only because human beings are not living according to their human nature, they have to think up good things and they think of these good things which are unbearable for lots of people.
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If your humanity flowers, what is needed will anyway happen, you don't have to think of doing 'good things'. Like if a flower blossoms, you don't have to tell it shoot the fragrance in the air; it will anyway happen, nobody can stop it
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We have chosen to live with the compulsions of the less evolved creatures on this planet. With animal-like compulsions we want to live. We don’t want to live consciously. I’m not saying live this way or that way. Whatever the hell you do, you do it by choice and consciously, that’s all - knowing the full implications of what it means
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There are over hundred billion galaxies, not hundred billion stars; In such a huge vast cosmos our solar system is like a speck. Tomorrow morning if the whole solar system evaporates, nobody is going to miss it. In that super speck, right now Chennai is a micro super speck. In that you are a big man - that is the whole problem
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As a human, you are not a being, you are a becoming, an ongoing process. Nothing is fixed - you can be whichever way you want to be
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There is nothing wrong with being limited, it is just that your nature is such that it can not settle for the limited, because it is seeking the unbounded
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If you have a sharp knife, you must have a steady hand, once you become a human being you have a sharp knife, but no steady hands, that is why Yoga
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Life Quotes
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when one is expressing one's joy, not when one is seeking it. The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous being
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Human Life truly begins only when survival is taken care of. For all other animals, life ends with survival
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You should not be aspiring for success; it's a miserable way to structure your life. You will simply cause pain & suffering to yourself & everybody, because your idea of success is sitting on top of somebody's head, that everybody should be below you, This is sickness not success. Don't ever think of success, make this (self) into a full-fledged being
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Empathy, Compassion, Love are consequences of a human being being in a certain way, you nurture the root, fruit will happen. Fruit is a consequence.
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Habit means fixed realities where you don’t have to think. No, don’t try to automatize your life. That is not efficiency. That is the efficiency of the machine. This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciously
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For all the other beings, everything in their life is set, Once you are born as a human, your life is in your hands, Nature has left that responsibility to us
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Once right and wrong comes, you will create a very prejudiced world. We never looked at it right and wrong. We always saw it in terms of every life has to find full expression. For that it needs nurture. How well you nurture it, that’s how well it becomes.
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Every life on this planet, how great it becomes or how puny it becomes is not dependent upon whether it's good or bad. It is dependent upon how much nurture it finds from outside and from within.
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To be a full-fledged human being is to respond to every life around you to the best of your ability.
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Being human means being capable of looking at every life form with a sense of tenderness
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This living being that you are is the greatest scripture. Everything that you need to know about life is written into this one
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As a human being you have all the necessary faculty to grow up as a full-fledged human being. I don’t have to put code into you to make you into a human being. It is just that if you take codes from other people you may cease to be a human being because there are people who have brought in values into their life, which makes them inhuman.
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Yoga is a tool to find ultimate expression to life. Every human being must explore and know this
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Most people on this planet do not know a moment of absolute ease, forget about blissfulness, forget about ecstasy, forget about anything else, they do not know what is ease. It's the most basic thing; lot of other creatures know this. You see, a dog has eaten well, okay totally at ease. Human beings do not know what is ease
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Right now situations are creating human consciousness. That is not the right way to shape human life. Human consciousness should create situations.
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This is the beauty of being human that there is no a particular way to be. If you were a dog you would be one way, if you were cattle you would be one way, if you were a sheep you would be another way, if you’re bird - another way, a grasshopper - another way. But to be human means there is no particular way.
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For every human being, this is the thing - have you opened up to the various dimensions of life or have you cocooned yourself in your own petty creation, which is psychological?
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The very nature of life is such – every life – whether it’s an earthworm or a grasshopper or this tree or this blade of grass, just anything, it’s only longing is to find its full potential. And that’s all it should be – that human being should find their full potential as a life.
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You have a very minor role in the existence - not just in the making of the existence, in your own life. Even if something as simple as breath or heartbeat is left in your hand, you will be a complete mess within a minuteLife Truth Existence Limitation
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Creation is not human centric. All life upon the planet has the same right of existence
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It does not matter what the stars say. Once you have come here as human being, you are supposed to be the Master of your life
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If new possibilities need to happen in your life, and above all, if human genius has to unfold, it is important that we create not an ambitious world, but a joyful and involved oneLife Joy Possibility Involvement
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The worst thing that can happen to you is to be an unused life. Whatever your capabilities, you must stretch them to the limit and a little beyond.
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Short Quotes
People are always referring to human as a limitation, as a compulsion, not as a liberation, what you call as ‘myself’ for most human beings is a bundle of compulsions, that they can only be like this, they can only do this, they can only do that. Unfortunately they are beginning to decorate their limitationsShort Compulsion Liberation Limitation
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What is human is only one end fixed, the other end wide open, in terms of human consciousnessShort Consciousness Possibility
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Thought and emotion are not separate entities. The way you think is the way you feel
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Being human means having the possibility to consciously shape yourself.Short Consciousness Possibility
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A complete human being is in equilibrium between the masculine and the feminine.
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There is really no limit as to what one can do. Because capabilities can be constantly enhanced.
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The essence of being human is the possibility to move from compulsiveness to consciousness.Short Compulsion Consciousness Possibility
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If not every day, at least once a month, take stock - are you evolving into a better Human Being
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Most human beings are – knowingly or unknowingly – shaped by the company that they keep.
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Human beings who do not break their self-created boundaries will remain trapped in them.
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What you do is up to you, but you should do it consciously. That’s what it means to be human.
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Without creating better human beings, we will not create a better society - it is not possible
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The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous being.
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If there were no compulsions within you, you would not deviate from the path of the Divine
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Anything in this existence will yield to you only if you pay substantial attention to it
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Once you go beyond the compulsive, cyclical nature of existence, life becomes spectacular
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Funny Quotes
Is there some aspect of life that human beings are not suffering? If they are poor they suffer their poverty. You make them affluent they suffer that. If they are uneducated they suffer that. If you make them educated they suffer that. If they are unmarried they suffer that. You get them married.. If they don’t have children they suffer that. If they
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It is difficult to love someone who is next to you right now, it is easy to love someone who is dead or who is in heaven. Because if you have to love one, you have to give up something that is you, to accommodate another, otherwise it will not happen.
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So morality is just that it's the first step towards insanity. You just have to stretch it; if you stretch it, you will go there
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Is there anybody who is not a philosopher? everybody has a philosophy for whatever they're doing, just go to the drunkard on the street & ask him 'why are you drinking like this?' he has a solid philosophy as to why he's drinking, you stop a thief & ask him 'why are you a thief?' he's got a solid philosophy as to why he's a thief.
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When it comes to animal husbandry, we’re thinking of breeding right, as human beings why are we not thinking of breeding right? Because we are too identified with our own body. “It’s mine” is more important than what’s right
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If human beings disappeared from the planet, the world would be very peaceful. If you don't create conflict, there is peace.
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If you want your life to run according to your agenda you better take your life into your hands, If you don’t mind going by God’s agenda that’s fine but that’s not true. Even if you go to the temple you are going there only to advise God what he should do today, if he’s seeking advice from you and running this planet I don’t want to be here
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The problem with every generation is that the previous generation thinks the next generation is all confused, it's not true, it is just that the older generation is not able to come to terms with the new possibilities that the next generation is exhibiting
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Excellence is not about being better than someone. Excellence means human mechanism performs at its peak
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Unfortunately most people utter the word human only with reference to the limitations of being human
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The business of human wellbeing is the only real business. All other businesses are subsidiaries of that.
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As an individual your most important thing is that you are functioning at the fullest level as a human being.
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You are working towards somebody else's idea of success, that is not a success, your success is you as a human being you found your full potential, that is your successPhilosophy Success Truth Wisdom
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If you remain a compulsive creature, you cannot call yourself a full-fledged human being, only when you are able to do everything by choice can you call yourself a human beingFreedom Wisdom Choice Compulsion
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A flower is not thinking of giving fragrance to you. A tree is not thinking of giving oxygen, The earthworm is not thinking of making the earth fertile, If they eat or if they shit they are doing good thing. Because they're just being themselves, they don't have to think of doing good things
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The ideal would be that we look at human well being, not human health, if you consider human well being as a composite subject and an approach, then you'd consider what makes a human being complete and approach all of them together, that is the best way to do it
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The beauty of being human is that we can do everything consciously, The moment we do something consciously suddenly that human being looks very refined and wonderful.
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Human system is a miracle, there's no question about that. It's a phenomenal miracle, So the magic is already there, you just have to play with it right, that's all.
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You have made yourself in such a way that you are a result of an unconscious process, you are not a result of a conscious process. When you are a result of an unconscious process, you are bound to be a miserable accident. Yes. It’s time every human being takes responsibility to at least change this muchChange Responsibility Consciousness
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There is a logical dimension to you and there's a dimension beyond that. If you do not explore both you will be an incomplete human being or you will be only half alive.
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What’s happening in your mind is your bloody dream. Now the problem with life is not that life is not happening the way you want it, even your dream is not happening the way you want it, that’s the problem
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What’s being right now passed around as love is generally a mutual benefit scheme -you give me this, I’ll give you that; if you don’t give me that I don’t give you this
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Human beings have physical, psychological, emotional, economic, social and various other kinds of needs. To fulfill these things when you say “I love you”, instead of making these things ugly to bring some beauty to this transaction, we quote it with a certain amount of sweetness of emotion which we call as love affair
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We have made such a distinction between man and woman as if they are two separate species, no other creature on the planet has this kind of problem with their sex, as the humans have. When they have it in their bodies, they have it, but with humans it is on their minds all the timeReligion Problems Mind Sexuality
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Once you're not able to think beyond your biological identity, the very nature of being human, the immensity of being a human is constrained and constipated into a very small process.
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Suppose I imprison you in a 5x5 cubicle, you’ll feel imprisoned. Tomorrow, we’ll liberate you into a 10x10 cubicle- you’ll feel good for a day & again you’ll feel imprisoned. Next day we’ll liberate you into a 100x100 cubicle. You’ll feel great for 3 days. It doesn’t matter where the boundary is. The moment you can feel the boundary, you want
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A spider weaves a web for other things to be caught. But if you're that kind of a spider, you build a web in which you're caught, you're a stupid spider, isn't it? Most human beings are in that condition
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The greatest fulfillment in life is to do something which is much larger than yourself.Happiness Inspirational Life Short
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Human beings excel when inspired. Only when human beings are truly inspired, they experience & find expression to dimensions they never imagined possible
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If your idea of success is just about being ahead of others, you will definitely not explore the full potential of who you are.
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Economic goals are only a stepping stone for human well-being. In pursuit of economic goals we should never forget the fundamental business is human well-being
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A rat race is for rats. As a human being, you can consciously create what you want, without being driven by social compulsionsWisdom Choice Compulsion Consciousness
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I refuse to recognize people as Muslims, Christians, or Hindus. I see human beings as human beings.
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The basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – integrity of thought, emotion, and action
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The nature of a human being is such that only when his survival process is taken care of, his life begins.
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Men & women are different but the problem with humans is that every difference is made into a discriminatory process.
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Don't equate being human with having limitations. Only because you are human, you have the possibility to go beyond all limitations
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Eating, sleeping, reproducing, dying - every other species does it effortlessly. Why do human beings make such a fuss about it?
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Trying to be like another human being is a deep insult to the Creator, who has made every human absolutely unique
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When you are a human being, the upper line is gone. But a bird which has been in a cage for a long time will not fly even if you open the door.It has forgotten that there's something called freedom, flying and living.
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The beauty of a human being is that the limitations put by nature are not absolute.
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Unless we come to an inner experience where our idea of wellbeing naturally includes every life on earth , we cannot call ourselves human
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The essential possibility of being human is that we can act out of our intelligence, love, and compassion, rather than out of compulsions
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If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven
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Whatever kind of business you are into, ultimately, there is only one business, that is human well-being
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A human being is a highly sophisticated mechanism. If you are in proper tune, you are capable of perceiving the whole cosmos within yourself
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Not disaster or disease, stagnation is the worst thing that can happen to a human beingInspirational Short Success Truth
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Look at my eyes, I'm stoned, never touched the substance but fully stoned all the time, I want you to understand that the greatest chemical factory on the planet is here (the human body), if you are a good manager of this, you can create any experience from within
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You are the working of this magnificent creation and the source of creation, but you build a shell and think you are a nut.
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Either you create your situations or the situations make you... Some people are being created by situations, but some people are creating the situations in which they live, and that is the whole empowerment of being a human being.
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The problem with the human being is, he is given an intellect that is capable of many things, which no other creature is capable of. But because the necessary attention has not been paid, and the necessary time has not been spent as to how to use such a powerful instrument, it has become a major problem for human beings.Problems Intelligence Attention
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The immensity of being human is being completely missed because we are too engaged with other things. If we pay enough attention to the human mechanism, the things we want to do in the world are just a play.
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We are always busy seeing how to fix the world. The world need not be fixed. If we generate the right kind of human beings, the world will be a wonderful place to live in
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Statistics cannot consider what is beating in the human heart. If only we can stoke that, if only we can stir up what is happening in individual hearts, miracles are possible
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Our inner atmosphere must be ruled by us, and only by us. Only then we can call ourselves human
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When we are unable to bring ourselves to some sense of peace, every little issue gets blown out of proportion. For every little thing, we end up fighting with each other.
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You don't see other creatures of the planet suffering like human beings. Their suffering is purely physical. If they are physically harmed, they are in pain. Even in pain, the do not know the kind of suffering that a human being knows
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Human beings are capable of suffering just about anything. If there is some physical reason, at least they have a good excuse. Otherwise, they will simply suffer for nothing.
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Intelligence is the biggest blessing that a human being has, but right now it has become a curse upon humanity simply because the human being is not coming out as a well-coordinated being. He's dislocated the human being within himself. This intelligence is dangerous
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In our mind, we think the life upon this planet is human-centric. But in natural terms, the worms, insects, birds, and animals are far more important than human beings. We as human beings have become the controlling power, so we are beginning to think that we are the most important life.
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Human beings need the entertainment to hide their madness. If they were perfectly sane, they could just sit and watch the Flower blossom.
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the biggest advantage, the biggest challenge, the biggest possibility that we humans have in our lives is we are capable of realizing who we are
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Spirituality is not about being super-human, this is about realizing that being human is super. It’s extraordinary because lot of people have denied themselves the possibility of knowing the immensity of being human.
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Your very existence is selfish because everything that happens, happens only through the self. There is no other way. So if you keep this just as it is, it is capable of reflecting the whole cosmos for you. If you muck it up, it doesn’t even show you what's right in front of you.
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I think it’s absolutely ridiculous and humiliating that a human being has to be brought up. You bring up cattle, okay? You don’t bring up a human being. A human being is supposed to blossom by his own nature. That is why he’s on the top of the pile, at least on this planet, in the evolutionary scale
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Never compare one human being with another. If you compare one with the other, everybody is abnormal. Yes or no? Show me one normal human being
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In nature, everything is living and giving itself to the maximum extent. Only human beings are trying to save – their joy, their love, their everything
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There is no such thing as having achieved your fullest potential. As a human being, you are a limitless possibility
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Crisis is always an opportunity for human beings to rise beyond themselves.Inspirational Short Success Problems
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Being human is super if only you learn to use your humanity & this human mechanism as a possibility, not as a barrier
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All thoughts are lousy. If you perceived something fantastic, there wouldn't be a thought in your head in that moment
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Love is a simple and beautiful emotion. All humans are capable of it. Needs no god's help
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In ten years time, the whole world may have changed into a completely different possibility. It is just that people need sufficient poking to get them going but when they get going, you don't know what they can do
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all these instruments were created by this instrument(human). If you enhance this instrument(human), this is capable of perceiving things in a certain way. Only thing is it needs a certain level of work and a certain level of focus, certain dedication
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We desire for everything, we don't desire for this much growth or that much growth; we are not willing to settle for anything less than the whole.
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In all these years of life, How many of you have passed through one day of stretch absolutely joyfully without a single moment of irritation, agitation, pain, frustration? Very few people on the planet can say YES
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we've done something fundamentally wrong as to how to handle this human mechanism, it's a very complex technology. We need to address it with little more attention
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Human system is capable of perceiving the whole cosmos, just like an antenna if you hold it in the right position it can just grasp everything in the existence, it is just that we are doing all kinds of things with it.
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Human attention can open any door in the universe, if your attention is intense enough & sustained, there is no door in the world which will not open for a human being
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As a human being you can be any way you want, this is the freedom that nature has given you. If you were born as a dog or a cat or a tiger or an elephant, that is how you are. Once you are human you can be any way you want. This is the beauty of being human.
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If anybody opens their eyes & simply looks unprejudiced at the world, you will see the only species which needs to be fixed & contained right now is human species. We need to make some drastic changes with them. Otherwise, they are going to finish this off. They are not only going to finish one, they’re aiming for the whole solar system
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Just to earn a living, to reproduce if you wish, and to die one day- Just to do this simple act that every worm, insect, bird, animal is doing effortlessly how much nonsense human beings are creating around themselves! How much suffering
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What is human is not defined nor described, for every other creature on this planet nature drew 2 lines; within that they have to play their game. For a human being only the bottom line is drawn there is no top line. But socially people are trying to draw top line for themselves. It’s a limitless possibility & this is what is freaking human beings right
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There is something within which can transform a rice grain or a banana or a piece of bread into a human being. This is the ultimate source of Creation.
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Only because there is darkness you know what is light, if there was no darkness you wouldn't know what is light, only because there is silence you know what is sound otherwise your ears wouldn't be able to perceive, your sense organs always perceive everything in comparison always in bits & pieces, it does not perceive anything in its totality
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The more and more you get identified with your physical body, the more and more insecure you become, because this body is never safe, next moment anything can happen, once your identification is limited to the
physical body then insecurity is the natural way
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If little more attention was paid to what is happening in a individual human being rather than just being concerned about what’s happening around us. Without creating better human beings, we will not create a better society. It is not possible. There is no such thing.
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Usually, it is the people whom you love that you hate, You don’t hate the man who is just walking on the street, Some love should have happened & now the coin fell another way & now it's become hate. it's just the same coin - if it falls this way, it becomes love; if it falls that way, it becomes hatred. Don’t think they’re too far away. They’re
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Even to think of a Planet B is shameful. Even if there is a Planet B, we should never step on it because of what we have done to Planet A. Reducing human population should become a priority for world leaders
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If we want humanity to enjoy the fruits of science and technology rather than using them to destroy the entire planet, the most important thing that needs to be done right now is raising human consciousnessSpirituality Consciousness Planet
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The most significant thing about being human is you determine the nature and the pace of your evolution
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Knife is not a dangerous instrument. The hand that holds it can be dangerous. The greatest instruments that human beings have are body & mind. May the youth learn to use these instruments for their well-being
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Do not classify people as extrovert or introvert. Every human being has the right to be whichever way they want
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Our focus should be on creating great human beings. For this, we need the right kind of education, an inspirational atmosphere, and above all, an inner strength in every individual, that they rise as great human beings
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The significance of becoming human compared to other creatures is, they’re complete biology, we are only part biology. We have intelligence, we have an emotion, and we have a consciousness, dimensions beyond biologyEmotion Intelligence Consciousness
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Education needs inspiration, not just information. Only inspired human beings can transform their own lives and lives around them
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If human beings did not exist, the planet would flourish. The question is not how useful we are but how beautifully we live
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One way of looking at it is that this human body is a chemical soup - either it is a great soup or a lousy soup
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Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering
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The problem is just this that people have taken identities like this – somebody is an environmentalist, somebody is a politician, somebody is a spiritual person. I feel what we need is inclusive human beings
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Whenever a human being bursts forth with a profound experience within oneself that is too phenomenal to describe, then poetry is the succor
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We can call ourselves human only when we rise beyond our personal issues and our issues of community, caste, creed, gender, and nationality.
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There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility
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You should not forget what is beating in a human heart. What human beings will do, today and tomorrow, you do not know
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You have to bring the human being to an inner state of wellbeing where, if he or she sits here, life is complete
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The human system is the most sophisticated mechanism. If you have not paid attention to this, it means you haven’t read the user’s manual.
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Very few people will ever say, “I am human” referring to the immensity of being human
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A true culture of innovation will happen only when human beings access the innate genius in them, not through accumulated information
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The significance of being born human is that you have the potential to become limitless. It is up to you to live your Godliness.
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Being human means being able to transcend the so-called laws of nature and make something happen that is larger than us
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The quality of human life will only truly change when we change within ourselves.
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As a human being, you have the possibility to evolve phenomenally, or you can remain stagnant. It is in your hands.
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50-100 years ago machines took away the importance of muscles (with industries and automation), now machines are coming which will take away the power of your memory, this is fantastic time. In the future, the only thing that matters is what kind of a human being are you
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What sets human beings apart from other beings is that- all animals are fulfilled the moment their survival process is taken care of. But the nature of human being is such that only when the survival process is taken care of- his life begins.
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Many so called philosophers and phony wise men have tried to make humanity settle down, they have tried to teach all kinds of pacifist philosophies, to tell them "what you have is more than enough, be content, be settled" but not one human being on the planet has ever settled, because the very nature of human being always wants something more
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The idea of perfection is so messed up. Have you ever seen a perfect human being? And where is the need to put everyone into the same mold?
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To remain calm, to remain in an extreme sense of pleasure all the time, is available to every human being
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A human being need not be useful. If he or she blossoms into a full-fledged human being, that is good enough
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For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.
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Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience
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Music is a fantastic expression of the human capability to arrange simple sounds in a pleasant, beautiful, and exotic manner.
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What is written in the books does not matter. What beats in your heart is what matters.
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Spirituality is not an extraterrestrial thing - it is the essence of human existence
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Existing realities could be changed in a moment, because they don't take into consideration what's beating in the human heart
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Between a human being & monkey the genetic difference is very small. But with awareness you can make it a world of difference
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Every experience of your life - light and darkness, pain and pleasure, misery and joy, agony and ecstasy - happens only within you
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You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself
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The possibility of being human itself is rare and special, The possibility of being human and to become spiritually aware is even more special
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If you become absolute receptivity, no one has to come and explain things to you or teach you what to do. You will know everything about the human mechanism, from its origin to its ultimate.
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Human beings trying to be comfortable are just burning up the whole planet, If people were comfortable where they are they would have only done what is needed, they wouldn't have done life in excess
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The most miraculous thing in this existence in terms of instruments is not the computer, car or spacecraft, but the human mind. This is the most miraculous instrument if only you could use it consciously
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The very nature of a human being is such that he does not like limitations. He is always looking at what is the next thing, and if that happens - the next thing. A human being is not thinking of more - he is thinking of all
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The world is not peaceful only because human beings are not peaceful. Once individuals are peaceful on this planet, you don't have to do anything to make the planet peaceful.
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Human beings are a tremendous possibility. If you cannot harness it, the possibility becomes a problem
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We have not only been given a fantastic piece of technology (the human body) but also the key to unlock its full potential
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Health is not just physical. There're a whole lot of dimensions to it, Unless this human being feels complete in every way, you cannot say he is healthy
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Most people are ego-sensitive, they’re not life sensitive. You have to be cautious about what to say and what not to say to a whole lot of people because they’re horribly ego-sensitive. For everything they will crash within themselves
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The only thing that needs some fixing is human beings. If you fix this one species, this is a beautiful world
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A human being has the opportunity that when we are alive we can be absolutely useful & contributory to life around us & similarly we can be even after life is up. Organ donation is such a possibility that if we can make a difference for another life even after our life is over, it’s a great possibility that human being should make use of
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Modern societies have started treating disease, ailment as a natural process, which is a serious mistake. Ancient societies always saw disease as something wrong - that’s not how a man should be. A human being should not be in any state of illness because Illness means something fundamentally wrong.
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Compared to any other creature, human offspring is the most helpless life which needs maximum amount of support. You could leave a puppy on the street; as long as he gets food, he grows up into a good dog, no problem. But not so with a human being; he doesn’t need just physical support, he needs variety of support and above all the stable situation.
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Suppose you and me die tomorrow morning, are we dying as a little better human beings than what we were a year ago - this is an important question. If we live, wonderful! Suppose we die, there’s no regret. Very important or not?
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Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two
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Law must absolutely bring all offenders to book. But if we want to ensure such crimes don't happen again, we need to create a society where women are not treated as objects of gratification. Raising human consciousness is the only way
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A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits
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The most sophisticated machine on this planet is this human mechanism. And if you understand what makes it tick, you can make it roar.
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Every other creature on the planet is eco-friendly. Only we human beings need to learn to live consciously
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Unfortunately, some of the greatest human beings have been spawned as a result of cruelty, injustice and strife. Time we create beings of incredible strength & balance
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Survival cannot happen without inclusiveness. Blossoming of the human being definitely cannot happen without inclusiveness.
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It's important we remember, that we have evolved out of animal nature. This is the time to enjoy our human nature and it is only possible if we are conscious and in the present. But the future is beckoning Divine nature.
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Most human beings on this planet have no aspiration in their life. They have desires, they have longings, they have needs, they have whims, but they have no aspiration
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Human beings are thinking too much of themselves. We are just a small part of what is happening here
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Human Beings are not significant because of what they do. Human Beings are significant because of the quality of their Being
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A fundamental flaw in human nature is we try to enshrine our differences without being aware of the essential unity of existence
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It doesn’t matter which religion, which caste, creed, gender they belong to, every human being should know how to do something within themselves for their own well-being
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If everything you do is result-oriented, your very existence becomes purely functional
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Being human means just this: that you can consciously decide what is the nature of your experience right now
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You build a great society, nation or world not by talking about it - only by building individual human beings who are truly great.
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You're the only one who has the privilege of being called a "being". We don't call a Lion- a "Lion being", tiger- a "tiger being", we refer to you as a human being because supposed to know how to BE, but how far from truth is that?
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The very privilege of being human is that you are a natural seeker, you can't stop at any point. Whatever you do is not enough, it leaves you as a continuous seeker, that's what makes a human being special, that's what makes human life a possibility
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There is something within you which doesn't like boundaries, there is something within you that is constantly longing to be boundless
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The world is beginning to accept human wellbeing is not in heaven, it is within us
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From amoeba to elephant, all creatures nourish the ecology. Only we humans are in destruction mode, and we think we are brilliant
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Every human being is spiritual in some way. It is just that some people claim the mantle
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All instruments created by human beings are lesser instruments than the human system itself
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All the problems on the planet can essentially be reduced to one thing: misaligned human beings, misaligned with all there Is.
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Morality may fix a few things in society but it will cause complete havoc within the inner nature of the human being.
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We must structure our lives and our societies in such a way that every kind of human being has a role to play
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As a human being, you come with the whole range of inner possibilities - from the deepest hell to the highest states. It is up to you
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With yoga, yogis can be totally drunk all the time, but one hundred percent stable and alert. This cannot happen by drinking something or taking in a chemical. This can happen only if you are producing and consuming your own narcotics! And nature has given you this possibility.
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If human attention fails, all your gadgets will fail you one day. If the “I” fails, your iPhone is not going to save you because those gadgets are just a small extension of this gadget - the human being. This gadget is capable of producing another million gadgets if you allow it to, if you explore it in the right context.
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We need to understand that a human being is an enormous energy and tremendous potential. If he doesn't find expression to his energies and harness and direct them properly, he will invariably perform violent acts (Violence does not necessarily mean you go out and kill someone).
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If you look at yourself as a machine, you have brains, you have a body - but grace is the lubrication. Without the necessary lubrication, even a great machine cannot function well
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We have to find our Rhythm, only then the best expression of the human being happens
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Every human organ is designed to last a lifetime. Why are we developing a culture that human organs are failing half way down? So this is a culture that we have to develop that individual people have to take responsibility to see that their bodies last for their lifetime.
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In human life, emotion is a very powerful thing. Even in this day and age, though people think they are very intellectual, even today their emotions are the strongest aspect. It’s the most intense aspect of their life. They claim they are intellectual, but their intellect is never so intense, but their emotions are intense
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We cannot control human aspiration, but if we have sense then we could control human population. Reducing human population should become a key focus area for world leadership
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Whether you call it a stone, a beast, a tree, a Human, a demon, or the Divine – everything is the same energy, manifesting itself in a million different ways. As a Human, choose how to manifest.
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Sport is one of the simplest & most effective ways of making human beings function beyond their limitations. May all make Sports an integral part of life
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Whatever happens, the question is, are you becoming a better human being – more stable, more joyful, more clear within yourself?
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Of all the creatures, only a human being can explore and know dimensions beyond the physical
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Being human means to consciously do the best you can for everyone and everything you come in touch with.
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Whatever happened, how did you conduct yourself – that is what determines the quality of who you are
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Two fundamental faculties which set you apart from every other creature are memory & imagination.
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There is a gadget far more interesting than your phone - that's called the human mechanism
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There is a chemical basis to human experience, no question about it. There is a way to take charge of this
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There are millions of cannabis receptors in the human brain. If you simply keep your body in a certain way, the body will produce its own narcotic, and the brain is waiting to receive it. It is only because the human body produces its own narcotic that feelings of peace, pleasure, and joy can happen within you without any stimulus from outside
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Only a Human is a Being, which means you have the capacity to be the way you want to Be.
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You drink your liver to rot and then you want somebody else’s liver. This could generate an unhealthy trend and there is also a market place which will evolve out of this and that could open up many dangerous possibilities.
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When human beings become material for you that you can use and dump, you will pay the price
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There hasn't been a single day's break in fighting since 1945. Some battle has been going on somewhere or the other on the planet. This is a clear declaration by human beings that the way we are right now, we are incapable of being peaceful
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A human being is capable of having mastery over his or her system much more than any other creature on this planet
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