Perception quotes by Sadhguru
Do not try to build your life on ethics, morality or values. Bring clarity of perception into your life. Learn to see everything just the way it is
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What is needed for humanity is clarity of perception. Where clarity is missing, people try to substitute confidence for clarity. Confidence without clarity is a disastrous thing
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Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception
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Whatever the effort human being is making, whether he goes to the temple, goes to the bar, wants to go to heaven, takes the drugs; the whole effort is to make life something more than what it is now, something will happen only when your perception is enhanced, not otherwise
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Why are we wasting our time trying to confirm our assumptions? We must enhance our perception, only by perceiving we know, there is no other way.
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The essence of education is to enhance your perception in such a way that you are able to perceive a blade of grass being as important as the coconut tree, it is different, not less important
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We think acquiring some information is education. No, enhancing your perception is what is needed.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, mystics and mistakes. If your perception has made a mistake you're a mistake. If your perception has gone beyond the mistakes and beginning to see life just the way it is then you are a mystic
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In the whole system of yoga – there are no concepts, there’re no philosophies, there’re no ideologies, there’re no belief systems – only methods to enhance your perception because only what you perceive is real, rest is all made up in your head. You are living in a psychological reality, not in an existential reality.
Philosophy Belief Reality Yoga
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Education is not just an accumulation of information but essentially about enhancing one’s ability to perceive
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Do not look up to anything, nor look down on anything. Then you will see creation just the way it is
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Trying to become boundless through the physical is like counting 1,2,3,4,5.. and hoping one day you will say infinite. We can not handle the boundless through the limitations of the physical, your perception has to go beyond the physical, only then the non-physical enters your life.
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Life + Perception quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
If you are unable to see things as they are, you can never handle life the way it should be handled
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If you go on thinking about life, there will be no life left in you. The only way is to live it, to experience it, and to enhance your perception of life
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If you can see everything just the way it is, life becomes a play; you can play it joyfully, you can play it well for sure. If you can play it well people will say you're successful. You should never think 'I want to be successful.' Don't ever think 'I want to be successful.' Just see how to make this being into a full-fledged being.
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When your experience of life has transcended the limitations of the sense perception then you would be known as a mystic
Life Experience Limitation Mysticism
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All you must do in your life is constantly looking for ways to enhance your perception and your intelligence; rest will anyway happen
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If you're able to see life just the way it is, you have the necessary intelligence to conduct it well. If you're not able to see life the way it is, your intelligence will work against you.
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one most important thing that people have not worked at is to enhance their perception. They’re trying to broaden their mind - that’s not the point; that will only make you socially successful, not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions
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If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions. If you can see everything just the way it is, life becomes a play
Life Success Truth Perspective
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If survival is all you are seeking then sense organs are sufficient instruments, but now you are longing to know something beyond the physical, you are longing to know the very nature of your life, the very origin of your life, now sense perception is not good enough, there are other dimensions of perception which have not been turned on from within you
Life Seeking Longing Physicality
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If, every moment of your life, you look at everything like you were just born, you will see everything crystal clear
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It is only by enhancing your perception, you can enhance the dimensions of your life - that is yoga
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The ability to see life the way it is doesn't come free. You have to do necessary things to get the discrimination
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Immortality is a natural state for everybody. Mortality is a mistake you have made. It is a wrong perception of life.
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When you do not know everything becomes bright, it is just looking, your intelligence is all hyped up and looking, when you assume "I Know" everything settles down and you go on with your stupid life
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All perception Quotes ⇑
For effective functioning in the world, knowledge is not the main factor, but clarity of perception
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Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises
Freedom Wisdom Thought Meditation
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In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is
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If you like someone you exaggerate what you think is good in them. If you dislike them you exaggerate what you think is bad. When you are not prejudiced, you see things the way they are. Then you can do what is needed.
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The third eye does not mean someone's forehead cracked and something came out! It simply means another dimension of perception has opened up
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The third eye means your perception has gone beyond the dualities of life. You are able to see life just the way it is, not just the way that is necessary for your survival.
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Whenever there is no perception, people try to overcome that by building confidence in them. Without the clarity of perception, people are trying to make it up with other kinds of substitutes; there is no substitute for clarity
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Most intelligent people on this planet are generally the most miserable people on the planet. Simply because they have an active intelligence but no perception of life
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You are trying to perceive something which is beyond physical through sense perception, such a thing can not happen. You want to measure the depth of the ocean with a foot scale, you will obviously come with wrong conclusions
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You are who you are, only because of what you have perceived, Perception means you must be like an antenna (rightly poised). The whole system of yoga is just this. You learn to hold your body right.
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Education is basically about enlarging the horizons of human perceptions, but unfortunately today, slowly education has shifted into a mode where people believe it is about enforcing information
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Developing your perception to a dimension beyond physical is what is needed. That is when you will produce human beings who look like gods. They’re not gods; they’re full-fledged human beings. Because others have not strived to do that to themselves, when they look at somebody who has flowered they think they are gods
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miracle is that which you do not understand, that which is not fitting into your logical perception. As your logic evolves, so many things which were miracles hundred years ago are normal things in our day to day life today
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Somebody thinks your child is not normal, so what? But if he is happy, what’s the problem? That way none of you are normal in my perception
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That which is not in your perception is darkness. So we said, ‘Shiva is the dark one’ because he is that which you are yet to perceive. He is that which you are yet to perceive. What you are yet to perceive is darkness. What you have perceived is light.
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If you have an intelligence which unsullied by memory, you will see everything just the way it is, but if you look at everything through the filters of your memory, everything is prejudiced
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The mind is there to perceive, not to cook up nonsense. It has to be like a mirror, showing you everything the way it is.
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The Ultimate Mystic Adiyogi wearing the moon as an ornament is an indication that his sense of perception has reached its peak. Keenness of perception determines profoundness of Experience
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From your own perception and intelligence, see what is the highest thing that you can seek, and put everything behind that.
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Once one's perception rises beyond the physical nature, then suddenly there is no male, there is no female
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Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
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Spirituality is not about looking for God, truth or the ultimate. It is about enhancing your perception.
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Every understanding is a misunderstanding, as it comes from limited perception, Hence those who seek the profound choose to withdraw
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Only what you perceive, you know - the rest is all imagination. Yoga is the science of enhancing perception
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Thinking that health is something that you have to manage from outside is a wrong perception.
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If you take attention away from body & mind and just keep yourself alert, something else comes into your perception
Body-mind Awareness Mysticism Attention
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Only if intelligence, sensitivity, and perception become the most valued aspects of life, will there be gender equality
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A devotee's perception is way better than that of a person who intellectually dissects, because devotion is a way of embracing the universe.
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Yoga: there are no concepts, philosophies, ideologies or belief systems.. only methods to enhance your perception
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Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, it is just a different dimension of computing
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When you are joyous by your own nature, the very way you perceive and express yourself, the very way you experience your life will change.
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There is nothing pure or impure, it is only the way we perceive it through past experiences that makes it so
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The world does not need dogma, philosophies or belief systems. What it needs is the human ability to go beyond our sense organs and be able to perceive something that is right now considered "beyond."
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If you have to enter a dimension beyond the physical, a perception beyond the five senses have to be opened up. Five senses open up because they are needed for survival, survival process opens up for you naturally
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In human mind, there is perception, there is memory, there is imagination. People are not able to keep these things separate. That which does not exist, if it impedes into that which exists, you will miss that which exists.
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Sense organs can perceive only if there is something to compare with. The moment you perceive through sense organs, you have already divided the existence
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If your perception is changing at different times of your life, obviously what you did yesterday or how you saw life yesterday was a mistake. What you are doing now is the right thing. But suppose this changes tomorrow, this was a mistake, tomorrow is the right thing - isn't this happening all the time?
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Mysticism is a perceptional enquiry of experiencing that which is existentially true. Intellectual enquiry is a psychological exercise, could be unrelated to the existential
Truth Existence Intellect Mysticism
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Mysticism is not an esoteric idea or philosophy, but about perceiving the various dimensions and knowing the very mechanics of life. Seeing life just the way it is
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If you want to be successful, all you need to do is enhance your perception and intelligence. The rest will fall into place
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Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception – it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
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Devotion is a different form of intelligence. What you cannot perceive through the intellect, you can perceive through devotion
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Physically, psychologically, emotionally, and energy-wise, you must break your limitations. That is when your perception expands.
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If your perception has to evolve and enhance itself, the most important thing is that your energy has to evolve and enhance itself. The whole process of yoga is to evolve and refine your energies in such a way that your perception is enhanced and the third eye opens
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The eyes that seem like a window to the world, are just a window; and one's perception is through the limits of this window
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There is no such thing as “my perception” and “your perception”. Perception means to be able to grasp what is there, the way it is. If reality enters you without distortion, that is proper perception. The rest is distortion.
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You can not process all perception of life through your logical mind, it doesn't work that way, logic will filter out so much of your life without which you cannot live
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If you're seeing everything just the way it is, you are a mystic in the world's eyes. If there is large mistakes in your perception, you're a mistake
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