Reality quotes by Sadhguru
Between you and the ultimate reality there is only one barrier, that is yourself.
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Marriage is about bringing sanctity to the simple basic needs that every human being has. There are physical, psychological, economic, emotional, social.. needs. To fulfill all these we set up an institution called marriage where all these can be conducted in a sensible manner, if we did it on the street like every other creature it would turn ugly for us
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Most people’s lives are mortgaged to the social reality around them. Yoga is about releasing the mortgage
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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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only when a human being is in a very extended periods of joyfulness, blissfulness, he will stretch himself to the limits & do what he could do to the fullest. When he’s in competition, when he’s in fear of failure, he will only do little better than somebody else. So, the human genius is completely missing today. You’re destroying the human genius
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The most significant aspect of your life is that you're alive right now. Everything else is secondary and incidental
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New is a trap, old is a cesspool. If you jump out of the cesspool into a new trap, that's not going to help
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To make a simple physical act beautiful, we have invented all kinds of decorations around it. Without those decorations most people would be unwilling to get into the physical act. Lot of people cannot simply face the basic physical act as it is, unless it is decorated they will feel it is obscene, they'll feel it is basic - which is a factLove Nature Relationship Truth
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Fear arises simply because you are not living with life – you are living in your mind
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There is a distance between possibility and reality. Do you have the courage and commitment to walk this distance?
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Success does not come to you because you want it. Success comes to you because you do the right things
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You may attach much significance to your birth, life, and death, but for Mother Earth, it is just a recycling process
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Short Quotes
Whether you like something or you dislike something ‒ either way, you exaggerate the reality
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Believing in something that is not in your experience means losing touch with reality
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More people in the world are suffering from indigestion than of hunger. Unfortunately, that's the reality.
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What does an unlimited amount of wealth mean to a man who has a limited amount of time.
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If your illusions are shattered, it means you are getting closer to reality
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If you run after fulfillment, it will be an endless run. You will never be fulfilled.
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Sport suspends Reality for you, allowing you a breath of fresh air from the rigors of the mundane
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The only way to get in touch with reality is to pay attention without making conclusions.Short Spirituality Mysticism Attention
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If you really want to know reality, you must see how to turn your attention inward.
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Truth Quotes
It’s unfortunate that injustice, subjugation and many levels of cruelty generates wonderful men. We have to find a way to generate such men when there is no strife, when there is no subjugation, when there is no injustice.
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If I say something which is not in your present level of experience, what are the option you have? You can believe it or you can disbelieve it. If you believe what I say, have you gotten any closer to reality? Or if you disbelieve what I say, have you gotten any closer to reality?
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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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If I think you are a good person, I will not see you the way you are, I'll see you the way I like it. If I think you are a bad person, immediately I'll start seeing things which don't exist... Only if you see everything the way it is you are in touch with reality.
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For most parents it is not about education; it is about 1st rank. They want their children to sit on top of every other child's head. They are not interested in learning, they are not interested in education, they are not interested in a career, they are not interested in anything. Their whole effort in their life is how to sit on top of the pile
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Our psychological realities have become bigger than the cosmic reality. That is the big problem. It's time you step out of the cinema that everybody is playing in their own minds
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If you're waiting for people to understand you and act, it is only a pipe dream; it's never going to happen
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We must understand that if we motivate ourselves or get motivated by somebody, there could always be somebody else who’ll demotivate us. If something flips us up, something can always flip us down
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All the entertainment in the world is just to avoid facing how limited we are. It's time we realize this
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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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Life Quotes
When you say positive thinking, in a way you are trying to escape reality. You only want to look at one side of life while missing out the other. You may ignore the other, but the other will not ignore you.
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There is a psychological reality in your head, and there is an existential reality which is Life. Most people are mistaking psychological reality to be existential, your thought and emotion has become more significant than the cosmos
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I want you to see life bare, as it is; and the bare is not ugly. The bare is very beautiful. The bare is very tremendous.
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When things go wrong in life, that is when it shows who you are. When things go well, everyone can pretend to be fantastic.
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If you are not conscious, you can only see three feet in front of you, then it’s all real. If you can see the whole circle of your life, suddenly it becomes like a circus. Once you realize this circus, you don’t want to go through this circus again and again. you want to do something about it.Life Perspective Awareness Consciousness
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Here we were always interested in how the human being is. We are not so concerned about how the outside arrangement is. Because if the self is fixed, you can sit on a rock and be ecstatic. If the self not fixed, you can sit in a palace and be utterly miserable.
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Living in truth means that you’ve not made up anything. You’re not writing your own story; you’re trying to live life. If you live life, you can only live it the way it is. Only if you make up a story you can make your own story, If you are doing fiction you can make it up the way you want. If you’re living life, you can live life only the way it is
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Right now you are bouncing off petty particles (relationships, friendships, belongings) and these petty particles are giving you some relevance. But if you stop seeking that relevance and simply sit here, you will see a boundless nature which doesn’t need any context exists within you.
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Your entire life is a Virtual Reality, because you are seeing it only the way it happens in your mind
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What you think is not important, what you feel is not important. What you think has nothing to do with reality. It has no great relevance to life... If you think it is important, you will never look beyond that.
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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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Once you start believing in something which is not yet a reality for you, you are bound to be in conflict with somebody else because somebody else is bound to believe something else
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Every day, every moment if you remind yourself this is a brief life, "I'm mortal, one day I will end." just do this for 2 days & see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourself
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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 Perception Yoga
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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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There is no one moment of ease, simply. These structured societies where you have house mortgage which is for thirty years, a car mortgage which is for ten years, an education loan which is twenty two years - you got a life term. You’re doing your time in an open prison.
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Learning to live with the reality is the most important dimension. If you stop distorting things in your mind and just see everything the way it is, mukti is just one step away. You don’t have to do anything. Just time will mature you into another place.Time Mind Spirituality Liberation
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Your suffering is always about that which does not exist.. If you were rooted in reality, there would be no fear
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A Guru is somebody who will destroy your psychological reality, so that you can come down to the existential
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The unfortunate reality is that most people will know peace only with death- "Rest in Peace". It is time we do something about it in life
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The yogic system is about enhancing your perception. The divine should not be an imagined hope - it should become a living reality for you
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The only reason why most people have not realized the inner realities is, they believe things that they do not know.
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Reality is timeless but wisdom always has to be contemporary because wisdom is gleaned out of present experience
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If you like something you lose touch with reality, If you dislike something you lose touch with reality. Only if you see everything the way it is you are in touch with reality. Reality is the only doorway to the beyond. If you want to go somewhere, you can only start from where you are right you are.
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God is not a reality in your life; it is just a belief. What kind of God you believe in is just what kind of social situations you have been brought up in
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The nations of the world talk about peace only when they are at a disadvantage. When they are at an advantage, they talk about war and aggression.
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what we need to understand is between a possibility and a reality there is a distance. Do you have the courage, the commitment and the conviction to walk the distance? That’s always the question
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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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To be in fear, you have to imagine things that have not happened. To not be in fear, you don’t have to do anything
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Nobody ever found the right person anywhere. If you get into that kind of unrealistic mindset “I found the right person!” – oh, you will be soon disappointed.
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Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention
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If you believe there is God, or if you believe there is no God, you are in the same boat, you believe something that you do not know. Everybody can believe whatever they want, it need not have anything to do with reality
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It's in being in touch with reality in every possible way that one will know, not by thinking up nonsense which may pass in a tea party; existentially it will not pass
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If you go with reality, it is on whether you are alive or dead; it’s on. You being with it is the safest way to be, best way to be. That’s the only way you can experience life. Otherwise you will experience the treachery of your own words, nothing else.
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what you think and what you feel need not necessarily have anything to do with reality as such. There is something called as a psychological reality and there is an existential reality. By controlling or handling the psychological reality well, a lot of people can become healthy, a lot; because for lot of them, that is the cause of their ailment
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The fundamental process of prejudice is you’re getting identified with your body to start with, and the next leap- it’s a huge, from identifying with the body to identifying with the thought is a many fold promotion into corruption, moment you’re identified with your thought, you’re a lost case because you've fallen out of reality
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Cosmic will is like the gravitational force. It just is there always. It only acts that way because the very framework of life is based on the cosmic will, but today you decide to do this or that, that is definitely your will. Cosmic will has no role in this, but you can use the cosmic force to make your will into a reality.
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I'll bless you with a long life but you're going to fall dead one day (So do not take this for granted, pay some attention to this life)
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Spiritual process has become ridiculous because all the time people are talking about things which are not yet in their experience. Some things you know best only by experience
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We do not know how a single atom in its entirety we do not know, with all the scientific exploration. So that should be humbling enough for everybody
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With all the effluence, with all the comfort that has come to the Western societies compared to other parts of the world, you see so much more insecurity on people's faces than anywhere else in the world, this is the reality if you have not traveled around, this is actually the reality
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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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Whether you say ‘God is everywhere’ or ‘everything is one energy’ – it is the same reality, expressed in different ways
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If your imagination loses control, if it is not rooted in reality, you are definitely moving towards insanity
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Your body is just a scoop of earth. Carry it gracefully. And when it’s time to put it back, put it back gracefully
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The work of a Guru is not to take you to the movies but on a tour of the projection room
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You are a tiny speck in the universe. But this tiny speck has the potential to contain the whole cosmos.
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People who have everything, they suffer much more deeply than people who don't have anything.
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people always think spiritual process means something magic should happen, no, spiritual process means you go to the roots of reality and reality itself is a great magicSpirituality Spiritual process
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Yoga is about shifting your investments from your body, mind, and emotions to your being - from imagination to reality
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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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If you think you exist individually, you will get the reality only after you are buried
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The sense organs can perceive things in bits and pieces - never in totality
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If you think something is good, you lose contact with reality, if you think something is bad you lose contact with reality.
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If you are sincere with yourself, whichever way you step into your mind, you cannot avoid the filth. Isn't that the reality?
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If you see things clearly, knowing that the whole universe is one, the way it is -not because somebody says so, because you see so -everything will change. If you see the reality of the existence the way it is, not the way you think it is right now, everything about you and your relationship with the existence will change.
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If you make up a story which isn't true & believe it's true, when your script comes to an end, then you'll be at a loss. You being with the reality is the safest way to be
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What is the ultimate dimension is also you. It is not unattainable, it is something you can aspire for
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In reality, there is only now. If you know how to handle this moment, you know how to handle eternity.
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Yoga is a technology through which a dimension beyond the physical becomes a living reality within you
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World isn't all violent & corrupt. There are many joyful & loving human beings on the planet doing incredible things.
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Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood
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Your attention naturally flows in the direction of whatever you hold as important. If your thought and emotion are important, naturally your whole attention will be right there. But that is a psychological reality. That has nothing to do with the existential.
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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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Your suffering is always about that which does not exist, simply because you're not rooted in reality, you're always rooted in your mind. Mind is one part- memory, another part- imagination. You're lost in your imagination, that's the basis of your fear.
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Every action has a consequence. This is not a moralistic reality; it is a certain existential process.
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