Identity quotes by Sadhguru
when somebody is feeling very human, he doesn’t need morality. He will be fine the way he is. But instead of being a human being, he becomes a Christian or a Hindu or a Muslim or an Indian or a Pakistani or some many things. So instead of a human identity he takes on a different identity. Now you can do most horrible things with great pride
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The moment you make this mistake that you identify yourself with things that you are not, you cannot stop the mind. You will be in a constant state of mental diarrhea, endlessly it will go on because you’ve eaten bad food. If you want the diarrhea to stop, you don’t need a wine cork, you just stop eating bad food
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To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications - don’t let them rule you.
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Having a body or family and being identified with it is very different. Once you're identified with it, naturally your whole system work towards building a wall around this identity, not allowing one to expand or to break the barriers of who he is right now.
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If your mind is pegged down to limited things you are unnecessarily creating a tension in the system. It's like you tied up your boat & you are rowing it hard, it's good exercise, but you're not going anywhere. If you untie the rope, even if you don't row, you will move slowly with the pace of the river
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When you identify yourself with an ideology or a belief system; slowly your brain is turning into a concrete block. Calcification is happening, that’s why we call you a bonehead; How efficiently it happens depends on the efficiency of the preacher or the teacher. If he is very efficient, you will be a solid block where nothing goes in, nothing goes out
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what you know is not the problem in your life. The more you know, the better it is, Knowledge is not causing problem. You're identified with what you know, that is what is causing the problem.
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knowledge is not the burden. Your identity is the burden. You get identified with limited things that you know. That is the problem.
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Our knowledge however great it is, compared to this cosmos is just a minuscule, so if you identify with that minuscule you will become a minuscule, our ignorance is boundless, we always identify with our ignorance, we always identify with what we do not know, so that we are a constant expansion
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The only and only reason why the mind is in a state of compulsive action instead of being in a conscious state of action is identification with false things, The moment you get identified with something that you are not, you cannot stop the mind.
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As you get identified with this thing and that thing and that thing you're throwing your anchor, hoping your ship will go somewhere. It'll only sink. There's only one place it can go (down).
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Prejudice essentially arises in our minds because we are overly identified with something. If you’re too identified with being masculine you will have a masculine prejudice; if you’re too identified being feminine you will have a feminine prejudice.
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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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If you are not identified with the accumulations of body and mind, you will become still. And that is all it takes to meditate
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Allowing a slogan to define our life is not a sensible way to live. Nobody should identify with any slogan, regardless of what the slogan is.
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Every social group is built on identifications. The basis of spiritual process is to learn to live without an identityFreedom Wisdom Society Spirituality
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As long as you experience yourself as a limited entity, you are bound to feel threatened.
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Once you come to an unwavering state of awareness where you identify with nothing but the core of your being, liberation cannot be denied to you
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People are identified with their nations, their religions, and their communities, but not with their humanity. If people were identified with their humanity, we could always sit down and talk, and finish these issues between us
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The conflict is just this; you got identified with things that you are not. You are identified with many things that you are not.
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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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The moment you’re identified with your thought, you’re a lost case because you've fallen out of Creation, you’ve fallen out of reality. From reality you’ve fallen into your own illusory rubbish. So once you fall into your own nonsense you’re free to drive yourself crazy whichever way you want.
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Those getting empowered with high quality education must first ensure their identity is universal. Limited identity is the basis of all tyranny
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Following a role model means trying to be something other than who you are. In this effort, your natural qualities will be lost.
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People's brains have become calcified, because they are identified with things that they are not. They have gotten identified with some religious belief or an ideology or national identity or whatever. For all this, what’s the solution? Solution is only evolution
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When you say, ‘I’m this kind of person,’ what you’re saying is, ‘This is the kind of compulsions that I identify myself with, so I am this kind of a person.’
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what is you is spread all over the place (because of identification with everything you possess). When you are spread all over the place naturally wherever you move it gets entangled somewhere
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there's constant friction and conflict because you are identified with so many things that you are not.
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Your thoughts are not yours, your emotions are not yours. These are all things that you picked up from outside and identified yourself with
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If you sit here as a piece of life, you instantly know that there is nothing in the existence with which you’re not connected essential dimension of spiritual process is that you dis-identify yourself with all the false identities you’ve taken on and to learn to sit here just as a piece of life.
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Forget about meditation, most people cannot sleep. This is because they are so horribly identified with things they are not.
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Whatever you see, you’re getting attached to it. Whatever you see, you’re getting identified with it. If you identify yourself with anything that is not you, obviously you’re not moving from untruth to truth, you’re moving from truth to untruth, from reality to hallucinatory process. In this, one will not evolve, one will just entangle
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You're too full of yourself. If you reduce that, how can you not feel? You will have to feel. If you are not too full of yourself, if you sit here it will constantly reverberate within you
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Physical body means a bondage, because in this vast existence this little body is a separate entity, if you are identified only with this little body, then there is a sense of insecurity there's a sense of feeling
lost
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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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Even today “Mine” is more important than what is right, our identification with the physical body is so strong, we are unable to think beyond our biological identity.
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Anyone who does sadhana intensely will see, slowly, as the energies move upward, the identification with the body recedes
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You cannot fix the past, but you can create a distance with it. That is how the yogic system approaches it
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The spiritual process is a transition from limited Ambition to limitless Vision. The first step towards this is to start identifying with one’s ignorance, with things that one does not knowIgnorance Limitation Spiritual process
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Through your work, activity and many other things, see how to lose yourself, not how to establish yourself.
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Conflict is a consequence of harboring a “limited identity” of ourselves, which creates a confrontational outlook.
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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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Intellect is essentially an instrument to protect the identity that you have taken on.
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If intelligence does not tie itself down with identity, every human being is capable of realizing nature of life
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If you are not identified with your own body, you will never be identified with anybody or anything
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Yoga means union. Union means beyond cultural,national and individual identities
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Whatever you identify with, that completely distorts your perception of life.
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Meditation is a way to help you drop your identity and experience true peace
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Once you have a limited identity, everything in you builds walls (of self preservation), there is no other way.
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Once you are identified with things that you are not you are hallucinatory in nature, And all the conflict is coming simply because you are not in touch with reality; you are hallucinatory. Your thoughts, your emotions are all coming from certain identifications.
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Violence against those of different linguistic or regional identity within the nation is of grave danger to the future possibilities of Bharat
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The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not. Your mind will not stop for a moment, you do whatever you want.
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The same people who are together today, the moment they identify with their religions, suddenly they separate. Tomorrow they are burning each other's homes. Ten minutes ago, they did not even think about such a thing. The moment they get identified to some religious group, they are willing to fight.
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Somebody becomes very intellectually active, he becomes identified with his intellectual process, the need for sex recedes in that man, somebody who is physically identified with his body in him the needs are very heavy, it's always so, where you are identified it is through that everything functions in you
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Hindu is a geographical identity. If elephant in Africa is African, earthworm in this land is Hindu
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People are identified with their creed, religion, and nationality. But the most fundamental identity is that you are a piece of this planet. The very body that you carry is a piece of this planet and half your lungs are hanging out there on the tree
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Indian classical music has never been just for entertainment. It is a way of evolving an individual human being into a universal entity
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