Seeking quotes by Sadhguru
I Do not know is a tremendous possibility, only if you see that you do not know, the longing to know, the seeking to know, possibility of knowing happens
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Comfort is not what you’re seeking. What you’re seeking is a deeper experience of life.
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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 unboundedBeing human Liberation Limitation
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'What I Know, I know, what I do not know, I do not know', once you come to this sincerely, your knowing will constantly go on expanding on a daily basis, otherwise, the moment you believe, you are stagnantPhilosophy Belief Spirituality
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There is a difference between seeker and a believer, a believer is who has made a conclusion (from his books), a seeker is wide open. He has realized he doesn't know, that's why he is seeking
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A Seeker of Truth shall never know the comfort of conclusions. Only Intensity and Seeking
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A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one unconsciously.Happiness Spirituality Consciousness
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Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
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If this human being finds its fullest potential that is all you can do, no matter what you do, you can not do.
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If you want to approach the truth, the first thing is you don't assume anything. If you have already made an assumption, you are just trying to find the confirmation for your assumption, that is not seeking truth
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If you see 'I do not know' the longing to know will arise within you, if the longing arises, the seeking arises, if the seeking arises, the possibility of knowing existsSpirituality Longing Possibility
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Life Quotes
Diwali: The most important thing is that light arises within you. Light essentially signifies clarity, if there is no clarity, if you do not seeing things clearly in every possible way, if you do not perceive life with utmost clarity, every simple situation becomes entanglement, with only clarity are you liberated
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Everyone of you must decide what is your idea of well-being, once you are assured of your physical and social well-being, from there on you must do something that genuinely matters, otherwise it is a wasted Life
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Sanathan Dharma identifies that a human being cannot rest, he cannot rest because he longs to be something more than what he is right now. You cannot stop it. You teach him any kind of philosophy, you cannot stop it. He wants to be little more than who he is right now. If that little more happens, he will seek little more and little more
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Purity does not mean digressing from the life process. Purity means you have become the life process.
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The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
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The whole process of seeing life the way it is means - first of all, evolving an eye, a thoughtless eye, an eye which is free of thought. It is free from the taint of memory
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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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You want to explore not the flesh of life – you want to get to the bones of life, then you must come (to Sadhguru).
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You are looking for expansion, not for money, not for Love. You are looking for a way to have a little larger slice of life than what you have it right now. But how much ever you have is not enough, Even If I make you the queen of this planet, you won't be settled, you'll look at the stars
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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 youLife Perception Longing Physicality
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Life is not a problem.. You make a problem out of it then you go about seeking a solution. It's an endless process.
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If you live a life of awareness and seeking, from birth to divinity is a journey of homecoming.
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Seeking what you know as the highest, with undivided attention, is a simple way of knowing life here and beyond.
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There is no other way but to turn inward to know things about life. Only if you listen to your scriptures or what this person said or that person said, then you don't have to turn inward to know. It's already written there. If you don't read any of that stuff, when you start looking at life, the only place to look is naturally inward
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Short Quotes
If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking
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Yoga: The word yoga means to become one, seeking oneness beyond all the body, emotion limitations
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If you are looking for solace, you believe. If you are looking for a solution, you seek.
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Seeking is not the prerogative of those who claim to be spiritual. Every human being is seeking.
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If you are in a state of exploration and seeking, your intelligence would work better
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Don’t worry about who is your guru. You just see how to intensify your longing, your seeking.
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As a spiritual seeker, you are like a sailor, always wanting to go to a new place within yourself.
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Spirituality Quotes
Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process
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Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent
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Every human being wants his life enhanced, a man who goes to the bar & a man who goes to a church/ temple are both seeking the same thing, they're trying to enhance their life, if you don't show them proper ways to enhance, they will find shortcuts, they will take whatever ways are available on the street
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If you want to make a nation out of India, it’s important we get the fundamental ethos that we are a land of seekers. If this seeking is not deepened, if there is no spiritual process in us there is no reason why we should be together, we look different, eat different, dress different, speak different languages- there is no reason for us to be together
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If we bring this one thing, that the highest aspect in the world is seeking the truth and liberation, you will naturally have the fragrance of this culture everywhere. It is a natural consequence of this seeking
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Unless you begin to see the hollowness of where you are right now, you'll not begin to seek something else strongly
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Enlightenment means you're constantly seeking new terrain where you don't know how to walk - that's spiritual processSpirituality Spiritual process
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Spirituality is not about reorienting psychological attitudes but exploring a dimension fundamental to who you are
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Being on the spiritual path does not mean trying to get closer to the Divine - you are seeking to become one with the Divine
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The more you become 'I do not know' the deeper your seeking is, Seeking doesn't mean seeking something. If you have to seek, you should not make any assumptions. You already made an assumption, 'God is sitting up in the heaven, I am seeking him' this is not seeking, this is just hallucination.
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if you are seeking a guru for solace, there are many. If you are seeking a guru for liberation, then if you sit with him you feel threatened, you want to run away from him but at the same time, you don’t want to leave him for a moment.
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‘more’ is not what you’re looking for. ‘All’ is what you’re looking for. If you want ‘more’, you can conquer it. If you want ‘all’, can you conquer it? Can you earn it? If you want ‘all’, what should you do about it? If you look at that, you’ll naturally turn spiritualInspirational Life Spirituality
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Youth means wide-open possibilities. I think every human being should stay that way all their lives - constantly seeking and exploring.
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“Who am I” is not really an experiment or a mere question of curiosity. This is something that tears you
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If you can joyfully be a skeptic, then you are a spiritual seeker, and that's an ideal mindset for seeking the truth.
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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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If you want to approach mysticism, it does not mean you have to be dead serious with a long face. If you want to seek something profound, you need a certain level of exuberant energy. All mystics were blissed out.
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The reminder of one's mortality has always been the fundamental force behind the human search for something beyond. If they never knew that they would die, nobody would seek spirituality.
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Spirituality means that you are seeking tools to go beyond the limitations of the five sense perceptions and experience something more than the physical.Experience Spirituality Limitation Physicality
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People from outside recognized us as one nation because they all believed in something, This nation has never been a nation of believers, we have been a nation of seekers, spiritual process has been the main thing. Here people are not believing in God, they are seeking Mukti or Liberation
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Spirituality doesn't mean going to the temple, doesn't mean believing what your father said, doesn't mean
believing what your priest said, doesn't mean believing what the so called sacred books of the world said, It simply means that you are seeking to go beyond the limitations of sense perceptions & experience something more than the physicalExperience Spirituality Spiritual process
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If all your energies are focused in one direction, enlightenment is not far away. After all, what you are seeking is already within you
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Spiritual process is a seeking. Religion means assuming things that you do not know.Religion Short Belief Spirituality
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The natural sense of wonder, quest and seeking that is inevitable for human intelligence is being silenced by the so called faith.
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Right now your body, mind, energies, emotion are functioning with certain limited voltage. You crank up the voltage, suddenly you start seeing so many things which were not in your experience till that moment. To put it very simply, to put it technically, you need to turn up your voltageExperience Spirituality Awareness
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Fundamentally, you are seeking a relationship because you want to be happy, you want to be joyful. Or in other words, you are trying to use the other as a source of your happiness.
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If a vacuum of 'I do not know' happens within you, Sadhguru will happen to you, you don't have to search because you don't know how to search. If you search with your intellect, naturally you will search for that kind of person with whom you're most comfortable
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Our goal is not heaven, our goal is not some absolute up there, our goal is Truth & Freedom, there is no philosophy here, there is no ideology here, here we are in a constant mode of seeking
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when the source of Creation is throbbing within you, what are you looking up or down? There is no better place. So whatever work one maybe doing, everything that we do can be transformative both for yourself and everybody around you
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If you understand what is the nature of this life, at least if you start seeking what is the nature of this life, from fanciful questions to real seeking will begin. Once seeking is genuine you will never be denied the truth, 100%, believe me
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Even now, for 98% of the population in Nepal, going to the temple and seeking their mukti is still the highest thing in their mind, which is largely lost in India. Mukti is not the highest thing in India; going to America is the highest thing.
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The whole process what we refer to as sex is just two opposites making an attempt to become one, the intention of sex is good, but the method is hopeless, never are you going to really become one. Pleasure is involved so it draws people, but oneness never came
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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 consciouslyGod Choice Spirituality Consciousness
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Yoga: If you're seeking finds a conscious expression then we call it a spiritual process, if it is looked at as a science then we say it's yogaYoga Consciousness Spiritual science Spiritual process
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Searching for truth, knowing truth, does not mean you have to go in search of it somewhere. It's not hiding behind the mountain
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The essence of India is that it's a land of seekers which understood the intelligence of ignorance. In seeking there is no conflict. Only in believing there is conflict
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If you're seeking boundlessness, seeking it through physical means is a hopeless case
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As philosophies & belief systems fail the test of human logic & intellect, the longing to know something beyond the Physical will rise & Yogic tools of transformation will become very importantPhilosophy Religion Belief Yoga
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Mysticism means you neither believe or disbelieve anything, to bring back your sense of wonder and quest for truth
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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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All that a human being is seeking is expansion, wherever you are, it feels constricted, you want to be little more, whatever you know best through that you are trying to find this expansion.
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If you seek perfection, unconsciously you will seek death. Don't seek perfection in life.
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Expecting light to dispel darkness means missing the big picture. It is like seeing the stars but missing the sky
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I am not interested in you seeking God. I am interested in you becoming godlike.
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whatever every human being is doing, whether it is pursuing money, pleasure, or God, he is only seeking his own wellbeing. Spirituality only expands this innate urge - to include the whole of humanity within oneself. This is the only way that human wellbeing can happen.Humanity Spirituality Well being
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You’re anyway seeking ultimate in unconscious ways. If you seek in unconscious ways, you will always remain frustrated and the chances of finding it are remote. It’s better to seek what you want in a conscious way, in a focused way
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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 isPhilosophy Perception Mysticism
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If you see 'I do not know', what will you do? You will seek, because nobody can live with 'I do not know' for too long
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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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People who have reached a certain level of success should shift their attention from "more" to "all"Success Spirituality Attention People
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Brahmacharies are also seeking just what you're seeking, but they are seeking it one hundred percent consciously
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if you seek a friend, what kind of friend do you seek? Do you seek a friend who punctures your ego every day? You seek a friend who nourishes your ego every day, If somebody punctures your ego, he becomes your enemy, even if you seek a guru, you will only seek with this context.
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This need between the sexes, this need between the two biological entities of the same species is fine as a survival process, but if you're seeking anything beyond survival it'll never be enough
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It is natural for people to initially believe that if their food, housing, clothing and the little luxuries they are dreaming of are taken care of, everything will be okay. When all those things are taken care of, and you realize that you are still not fulfilled as a human being, that is when you naturally turn inward
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