Choice quotes by Sadhguru
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
Freedom Being human Compulsion
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In mediocrity, there is comfort, but no joy. In going beyond your limits, there is joy, but maybe no comfort. You have to choose.
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The weak are not gentle by choice but because they are incapable. Gentleness is of value only when it is by choice
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When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.
Inspirational Short Wisdom Consciousness
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You can use this mind either to create wellbeing or misery for yourself. Everyone has this choice.
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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 being
Freedom Wisdom Being human Compulsion
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If there was a conscious choice about how to keep your life energies right now, definitely you would have kept yourself absolutely joyful and ecstatic. Only because a large part of you is happening unconsciously, other things which you do not want are happening within you.
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With your actions, if you are turning yourself against yourself, because you do things senselessly & you are not doing things by choice simply because you have given in to a certain aspect of your body or emotion or something, then definitely you will bring suffering to yourself
Emotion Spirituality Suffering
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Anything that you are doing in your life, if you are doing it willingly, it's a beautiful thing; if it’s happening to you unwillingly, it's a horrible thing.
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Our Parents (generations) also wore torn clothes, but out of compulsion, now (youth) by choice
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How people are is their choice. How I am is my choice. No matter what they do, no one can make me angry, happy or unhappy. These privileges I have kept to myself
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All choice Quotes ⇑
The choice is either you fix yourself or you try to fix the truth. With one you will attain to the highest, with the other you turn into trash
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To volunteer is to become willing. To be willing beyond personal choices is the way to liberation
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Whenever something hurts you there are two options: you can either become wounded or you can become wise. This is the choice
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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 compulsions
Wisdom Being human Compulsion Consciousness
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The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom
Life Wisdom Experience Transformation
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Relationships are necessary to exist in the world. Whether you keep them beautiful or ugly is the choice you have
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There is nothing else to do here except live. The only choice you have is to either live superficially or in a profound manner.
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If you choose, you can be joyful every moment of your life. It's time you made your choice.
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To be spiritual has always been understood as to also be gentle, which has always been misinterpreted as weakness. The weak are not gentle by choice but because they are incapable. Gentleness is of value only when it is by choice
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Do you want to rule the world or do you want to serve the world? Ultimately, that is the choice.
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It is all right if the world thinks you are weird. Everyone is different, so everyone is weird in someone's eyes. Happily weird or miserably weird - your choice
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If I told you this is God’s will that you are doing well, then you have no choice. If I tell somebody who is not doing well 'This is God’s will', he has simply no choice, isn't it? That's the way he has to be. When I say 'It's your making', that means he can make it something else if he wishes
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democracy has something called a secret ballot, that means you vote whom you want, even your family need not know, but now you have already declared from birth- "I am only going to vote for this party, no matter what they do", this is Feudalism
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How you handle a situation is not entirely your choice. But how you handle yourself is entirely yours
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I can create easy situation for you, or difficult situation for you. But suffering is your choice
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Joy is the natural choice. You don’t need any teaching or advice or scriptures to make this choice
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The choice is just this – either you can exist here just as a piece of Creation or you can exist here as the very Creator himself.
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Seeking the divine is not something that you have to start as a project now, from the moment of your birth the seeking is happening but unconsciously, the choice that you have is that- you can seek it unconsciously or you can seek it consciously
God Seeking Spirituality Consciousness
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When you do not know what to choose, show total involvement in everything. Then life will choose, and it is never wrong.
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I don't belong to either left or right wing. Personally whether I agree or disagree with any elected government, I bow down to it because it's people's choice. My opinion is not bigger than the people's will
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(LGBT, Homosexuality) What adults do in their bedrooms willingly and with mutual consent should be left to their choice
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At a very early age children should learn to live consciously. Once they are conscious, they know when to use what and how much to use, its individual choice
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This is our time on this planet. What are we going to do? Are we going to make this into an exuberant, joyful, wonderful planet, or are we going to make this into a miserable, horrible one? We are free to do this either way – the choice is yours.
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To move from compulsiveness to choice is evolutionary. But to move from choice to choice-less-ness is revolutionary.
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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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This is the choice you have- Either you exist here just as a piece of creation, pushed and pulled by the forces of Life. Or you exist here as a creator, creating your destiny, making your life happen.
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Do not make life decisions based on immediate compulsions. Looking back after many years, it should still be a worthwhile choice
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You can either cry about every little thing that happens to you, or you can transcend it. Please exercise your choice.
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We think joy and misery are happening to us. No, you being joyful or miserable is just a question of choice. You must make this choice every day: “Today, I'm going to be joyful.”
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You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime
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Every woman should do what she wants to do as an individual person. It should not be made into a trend in a society or the only right thing to do in the world. If a woman intends to have 2 children & raise them as an individual person, she’s free to do what she wants to do
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It's time human beings control population consciously, or nature will do it in a very cruel manner. This is all the choice there is
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It is our choice to appreciate or be astounded by the logic, or to use it as a plume to float to dimensions of the beyond.
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When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we can become either wise or wounded - that is our choice
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There are only two aspects to life- it's a certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy, time is rolling away for all of us the same way, there's no choice about this
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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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The spiritual process is one way of ensuring that people have the necessary awareness to make the right choices.
Spirituality Awareness Spiritual process People
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