Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?

Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.

Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.

Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.

Where did they get those screams, Katniss?