Work quotes by Sadhguru
If you do something for your child it's a joy. If you do something for the child on the street, it's your duty that you’re fulfilling. When heart is barren, when your heart is bereft of love, then only you can perform duty.
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Stress isn't because of the nature of your work, you go & ask a Peon, he is stressful. You ask the Prime Minister, he is stressful. In between everybody is stressful. So which job is not stressful? It is not the job which is stressful; it is you who is stressful. Job is never stressful, It is just that your mind is not taking instructions from 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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Here (Ashram) you are doing it as an offering, it's a beautiful thing. There (home) you are doing it as a chore, it's an ugly thing. Both the same work, even what you do at home and office, why don't you do it as an offering?
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If this inner space is not there, life’s activity can slowly catch you up in such a way that for lot of people the very professions they started with great passion, after some time, it's killing them
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Everybody wants a solution. Solutions will not come without realizing the nature of the problem, nobody wants to look at the mechanics of how the mind functions. Once in a way something may work, that’s not the point. But those are accidental happenings. That is not a solution.
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Throw yourself into your love affair and die into it. Something will happen. Something worthwhile will happen if you’re willing to die into the process, not just anything – whether it’s your work or your life or your love or whatever, if you do not know how to throw your entire self into it, you will never know the taste of what it is
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My work as a guru is just to give you a taste of that ultimate, so that your life goes into a tizzy, and you go crazy, and you want to go for it. You have had a taste, now you can't stop.
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Being a leader is like being a captain of a ship. If you are the captain of the ship, you don’t have to do the hard work that the crew is doing but you must be able to chart out a successful path. You must be able to see everything that is there right now & you must be able to foresee that which cannot be seen right now
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You need to look at why you want a break from work. If you were doing something that you truly care about, would you want a break?
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There is no need to do what others are doing. You must do what truly matters to you
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Life Quotes
Most people think, “this is work”, “that is life”. That means a large part of your life is not life
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It doesn't matter who you are, life doesn't work for you unless you do the right things.. people who believed they are good people are always wondering why it's not working for them and why it's working for someone else, whoever does the rights, for him it works, the existence is not judgemental.
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your work is not life, your family is not life, your career is not life, your cinema is not life, your thought is not life, your emotion is not life. Life is happening here, everything else is accessories to life.
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The most important thing in life is balance. If there is no balance, your own body and mind will work against you
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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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There is no such thing as work–life balance – it is all life. The balance has to be within you.
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Work has to be lived, and life has to be worked at. There is no such thing as work and life, it is life and life.
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If you're able to manage your work, your children, and everything, do it. If you're unable to, do what you can do. Everybody can only do that much. You want to do everything in the world, you will definitely go insane. How much you can do, each individual has to decide.
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People are looking for the easy way out, but life does not work like that.
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If you're sleeping for eight hours a day, that means one-third of your life you are sleeping it off, If your body and your mind are more energized and active your sleep quota will naturally come down.
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Short Quotes
The more control you gain over yourself, the more things you can do effortlessly
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Decisions should not be in terms of what you like or not, but in terms of what works
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In any work situation, the best results come when people can give each other a sense of dignity
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Do not think of what kind of things you want; just see how you want to be and work towards that.
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All Work Quotes ⇑
If your work is an expression of your joyfulness, whether recognition or no recognition, what does it matter?
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Your marriage, relationships work to the extent you are willing to involve and give yourself to the process
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Unless there is involvement in what you do, and it means a lot to you, your work is just a waste of time and life for yourself and everybody else
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How come a lot of people do not enjoy the week - only the weekend? Simply because they are doing things only to earn a living; it does not mean a damn thing to them.
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If you are doing your best and enjoy doing your best, what's the problem with life? How many rupees or dollars you have in your pocket won't make any difference.
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Volunteering is a tremendous possibility to offer yourself through your work
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Normally, whatever little work you have to do, calculations are there: "How much should I do? Why should I do this? what will I get out of this?" with these calculations, all the beauty of doing is gone. With these calculations, the very process of life has become ugly.
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Only when players enjoy playing can they perform their best (not when play becomes work)
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Never ever has anything worked for anybody by doing all the wrong things. Unless you do the right things, right things do not happen to you at all.
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If you want to bake bread, how much of it do you do, how much of it do you allow? There is an equal proportion of both. If you do not knead it hard enough, if you do not work to load the oven properly, if you do not set the right temperatures, which is all your doing, it's not going to happen. But if you’re not willing to allow,you will not have bread
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What is possible and what is not is not your business. Nature will decide this. Your business is just to work for what truly matters to you
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Whatever work needs to be done, whatever opportunity comes your way, whatever you have to share – this is the time, not tomorrow.
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Most people cannot meditate unless they exhaust the karma of activity within themselves. The prarabdha karma is like a coiled-up spring, it has to find its release. If you don't give it constructive work, it will find release in all kinds of perversions.
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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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When you’re pressured, when you’re stressed, you will not live to your full capability. Even the silly things cannot be done when you’re under pressure. If you’re in a certain level of calmness & sweetness within you, your body & your intelligence will work at its best. So this is about playing this life out, this is not about proving something to
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Artificial intelligence & robots doing most work on earth is the golden age of consciousness. This is the time, human beings can focus on consciousness. Everything that human beings are doing right now by gathering data, analyzing & processing will become irrelevant
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Women can work, create & find expression in whichever way they want. It's just that when money, which is the basics of survival today, becomes the only value, world naturally gets dominated by the qualities that we consider masculine
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The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work – everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitationsPerspective Yoga Spirituality Spiritual process
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No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
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People are successful not necessarily because they work hard. They just do the right thing.
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Do not worry about your future. Just do the present really well. Future will blossom.
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Total involvement in work does not kill you. It can make you far more resilient, competent, and effective in everything you do
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A strategy works best when it is handled with a certain discretion as to what everyone should know & not know
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If you are crawling through your work, that is karma. If you are dancing through your work, that is karma yoga.
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Your love, life, work, or whatever.. if you do not throw your entire self into it, you will never really know it.
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It is not your lifestyle, it is not your work, it is not the family, it is not the situations in which you exist that is causing stress to you, it is your inability to manage your system, your lack of understanding how this system functions, your inability to use the system the way it should be used which is causing stress
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Where is the time for yoga? You have time to eat, you have time to gossip, you have time to work, you have time to take care of everything, but you have no time to take care of yourself.
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If you have the brains and the guts to do something, there is so much to be done in this world, and particularly in India
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Work is an expression of who you are, so who you are needs to be worked at.
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If you recognize that the work that you are doing is important, first thing is you must work upon yourself
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Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don't know what to do with themselves.
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When you work with the world, you are not working with certainties, you are always working with probabilities
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