“From muses and mystics you did hear
Seeming to be the sounds of phantom lands
In ignorance’s bind, life, like phantom seems
Oh, creatures of surface,
the depths of life will you ever seek?”
– Sadhguru

Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary, a spiritual master with number of best selling books worldwide and witty video discourses  that has attracted spiritual seekers from world around towards the journey within. His talks and speeches are very popular among youth.

Here’s the best collection of 150 Sadhguru Quotes to make you more aware from within and step into journey to enlightenment.

Sadhguru Quotes

1. You don’t have to leave your fears and insecurities because they don’t really exist. You keep creating them unconsciously. If you don’t create them, they don’t really exist. – Sadhguru

2. As long as you’re identified as a physical body, as long as your experience of life is limited to your physical and mental faculties, fear and insecurity are inevitable. – Sadhguru

3. Only when a person begins to experience himself beyond the limitations of his physical body and mind, then this person can become free from insecurity and fear. – Sadhguru

4. When things aren’t going the way you want them to go, that’s when your capability is most needed. – Sadhguru

5. If you’re just sitting in a cubicle, working on your computer with only one other person, you need only a little understanding; but if you’re managing a thousand people, you need a vast understanding of everybody. – Sadhguru

6. The closer the relationship is, the more effort you should make to understand them. – Sadhguru

7. With your understanding you can create situations where the other person would be able to understand you better. – Sadhguru

8. You should enhance your understanding to such a point that you can look beyond people’s madness also. – Sadhguru

9. There are very wonderful people around you, but once in a while they like to go crazy for a few minutes. If you don’t understand that, you will lose them. – Sadhguru

10. If you really want the best deals in life, don’t try to make deals. – Sadhguru

11. You have become a disciple of devil if your whole life is about making deals. The devil is always making a deal with somebody. God never made a deal with anybody. – Sadhguru

12. If you set a goal for yourself, you don’t bite any deals on the side and you don’t go off the path. – Sadhguru

13. There is an intelligence at work within you, way beyond your logical mind, which can transform a bit of food into the highest piece of technological excellence. – Sadhguru

14. Until the body is destroyed, there is a tendency for the being to hang around and not proceed. – Sadhguru

15. If you could achieve that transformation consciously (instead of unconsciously), if you could bring even a drop of that intelligence into your daily life, you would live magically, not miserably. – Sadhguru

16. Life is one thing, but the source of life is another. In every creature, in every plant, in every seed, this source of life is at work. In a human being, this source of life is even more magnificently obvious. – Sadhguru

17. There are two basic forces within you. Most people see them as being in conflict. One is the instinct of self-preservation, which compels you to build walls around yourself to protect yourself. The other is the constant desire to expand, to become boundless. – Sadhguru

18. Even after clinical death has occurred, still the prana is not completely gone from the physical body. – Sadhguru

19. When the moment of death comes, no matter what kind of life you may have lived, it gives you an opportunity to settle certain things. – Sadhguru

20. The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. – Sadhguru

21. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow. – Sadhguru

22. The Creator is not looking for your attention. – Sadhguru

23. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you—these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created. – Sadhguru

24. When you are available to grace, suddenly, you seem to function like magic. – Sadhguru

25. The sense perceptions are absolutely wonderful instruments for human survival. – Sadhguru

26. If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out. – Sadhguru

27. Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses. – Sadhguru

28. The common questions are: “Is it very difficult to enhance my perception? Do I have to withdraw to a Himalayan cave to turn inward?” Not at all. – Sadhguru

29. Turning inward does not have anything to do with thoughts, ideas, opinions, or philosophies. It has nothing to do with the psychological activity of your mind. – Sadhguru

30. Enhancing your perception means enhancing your ability to receive life, just as it is. – Sadhguru

31. To conduct your life in the material world, to ensure your survival, you do not need even one percent of the body’s capabilities. – Sadhguru

32. When someone is constantly giving a hundred percent, a point comes when one surpasses all limits and reaches total effortlessness. – Sadhguru

33. The very essence of dhyana, or meditativeness, is that you push yourself to the highest possible intensity where, after some time, there is no effort. – Sadhguru

34. But once life has reached the level of evolution that human beings have attained, it is natural to aspire not just to stability, but to transcendence. – Sadhguru

35. If you are compulsive, you will see that situations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in your life will be in cycles. They keep coming back to you once every six or eighteen months, three years, or six years, depending on your degree of compulsiveness. – Sadhguru

36. The entire cosmos is just a magnified projection of a little occurrence happening within you—the play of five elements. – Sadhguru

37. The body is like a doorway. If you are always facing closed doors, then for you a door means a deterrent. If doors are always opening up for you, then for you a door means a possibility. – Sadhguru

38. The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, feel, and experience life. – Sadhguru

39. The question is not about what not to eat, but about how much of what to eat. It is not a moral issue; it is a question of life sense. – Sadhguru

40. You cannot slow down your system at the cost of activity. What is necessary is to keep your system in such a way that activity does not take its toll upon it. – Sadhguru

41. What the body needs is not sleep but restfulness. If you keep the body very relaxed through the day, your sleep quota will go down naturally. – Sadhguru

42. Existence is a dance between the unmanifest and the manifest. – Sadhguru

43. There is nothing wrong with the body; it is just limited. Nothing wrong with being limited either. If you go by the way of the body, some pleasure may come to you. It is not a crime to want to be limited, but you will live an unfulfilled life. – Sadhguru

44. You discover an indescribable profundity within yourself when you realize your mortal nature. – Sadhguru

45. But the mind, in most people’s experience, has unfortunately become a circus. A circus is actually a very coordinated activity, deliberately made to look like a mess. – Sadhguru

46. There are only two forms of suffering in this world: physical and mental. Once this distance becomes a constant factor in your experience, you have reached the end of suffering. – Sadhguru

47. The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! – Sadhguru

48. Without logical thinking, you couldn’t survive on this planet. But at the same time, too much logic is suicide. – Sadhguru

49. Once you are identified with something that you are not, the mind is an express train that cannot be stopped. – Sadhguru

50. Irrespective of what you think you are, when death confronts you, every identification falls away. – Sadhguru

51. If you employ your intelligence and make an attempt to reach your ultimate nature, this is called gnana yoga, or the yoga of knowing. – Sadhguru

52. Once you unleash the intellect, it splits everything it encounters; it does not allow you to be with anything totally. – Sadhguru

53. The accumulative part of the mind is, to put it simply, just society’s garbage bin. – Sadhguru

54. Sleep, wakefulness, death—these are all just different levels of awareness. – Sadhguru

55. How do you know whether the world exists or not? Only by your experience. There is no other proof. So, awareness is that which can either create or obliterate this existence. That is the magic of awareness. – Sadhguru

56. Once you are in touch with your awareness, you don’t have to try to accomplish anything. – Sadhguru

57. I make a distinction between knowledge and knowing. Knowledge is essentially accumulated information. All information is only related to the physical nature of existence. Knowing, on the other hand, is a living intelligence. With or without you, it still is. You are either in it or you are not: that is the only choice you have. – Sadhguru

58. And the pursuit of yoga is just this: moving from this small headful of information to a cosmos of intelligence. – Sadhguru

59. One of the biggest problems in the world today is that right from a person’s childhood, an inflexible system of morality has been imposed on the mind. Whatever you consider good, you naturally get identified with it. Whatever you consider bad, you are naturally repelled by. – Sadhguru

60. Make a list of all the things that the major religions of the world call a “sin,” and you will find that just to be alive is a sin. – Sadhguru

61. Unfortunately, all kinds of belief systems are passed off as spirituality today. – Sadhguru

62. Once your thoughts get organized, your emotions will also get organized. – Sadhguru

63. There is an alternative to faith, which is commitment. If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there are no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely toward what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence. – Sadhguru

64. What you normally think of as “mind” is the thought process or intellect. But in fact, the mind has many dimensions: one is the logical aspect; another is the deeper emotional aspect. – Sadhguru

65. It is best not to create polarities within yourself. That makes for civil war and schizophrenia. Thought and feeling are not different. One is dry. Another is juicy. Enjoy both. – Sadhguru

66. Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means “what’s fine” and “what’s not fine” do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. – Sadhguru

67. Yogis are not against pleasure. They are unwilling to settle for little pleasures, that’s all! – Sadhguru

68. As long as the fear of suffering persists, you will not dare to explore the deeper dimensions of life. – Sadhguru

69. There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love. There are conditions and there is love. – Sadhguru

70. If you have to be in love, you should not be. – Sadhguru

71. If you go deeply into any aspect of life, you will move further and further away from any conclusion. – Sadhguru

72. The human longing to expand is actually just an expression of the ultimate formless intelligence that is the very source of who we are. – Sadhguru

73. The sole aim of every individual’s life energies is to touch the infinite—the very core of our making. – Sadhguru

74. Yoga means to experience the mental and physical process distinctly, not as the basis of yourself, but as that which is caused by you. – Sadhguru

75. The spiritual process means a return to life. It means following the deep intelligence of your life energies. – Sadhguru

76. Freedom is now an empty word because the way you think, feel, and understand life—even the way you sit, stand, and move—is conditioned by your past impressions. – Sadhguru

77. What you consider to be your personality—the bundle of traits and tendencies that you are—is because of information you have gathered unconsciously. – Sadhguru

78. It is important to remember that karma is not a negative word. Karma is what gives stability and structure to your life. – Sadhguru

79. If you want any kind of transformation, any kind of forward movement in your life, it can only happen if you break the cyclical patterns of karma. – Sadhguru

80. Yoga offers a way to distance yourself not just from your karma, but from the very source of karma, which is the discriminatory intellect. – Sadhguru

81. If I were given the necessary support and opportunity, I would like to consecrate the whole planet! – Sadhguru

82. A peaceful being does not mean a passive being. – Sadhguru

83. There is sufficient unpleasantness in the world around us. You don’t have to create unpleasantness within yourself. – Sadhguru

84. If you learn how to be peaceful within yourself in the most difficult situations in your life, only then can we build a culture of peace over a period of time. – Sadhguru

85. Confused people are better than people who have drawn wrong conclusions, because people who have drawn wrong conclusions go at it with full gusto. Confused people hesitate to fight. – Sadhguru

86. What you believe and disbelieve have nothing to do with reality. It has simply got something to do with how much influence somebody has had upon you. – Sadhguru

87. What you call a human being is not really a being; it is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, and opinions that were gathered from elsewhere. – Sadhguru

88. Once you are on a spiritual path, if you’re genuinely on the path, you’re not just obsessed; you are possessed. – Sadhguru

89. Once you’re truly energetic, you can communicate with everything the existence energy-wise. – Sadhguru

90. Once you enter the spiritual path, everthing is in turmoil, everything is in question. – Sadhguru

91. If comfort is all you’re seeking, you must psych yourself up to believe you’re perfect, that everything is okay with your life. – Sadhguru

92. The suffering is just because the suppressed being is always longing. – Sadhguru

93. To even become conscious of this suffering, people take lifetimes. – Sadhguru

94. Entering the spiritual path means you have become conscious of your suffering. – Sadhguru

95. All the effort is to demolish the structures that you have built. – Sadhguru

96. The ultimate reality can never happen with effort because it is beyond all that. – Sadhguru

97. If you don’t know how to be straight with life, over a period of time, it will take its toll. – Sadhguru

98. A spiritual seeker is not interested in going to heaven or hell. – Sadhguru

99. As your energies mature, you may see qualities you never thought were part of you. – Sadhguru

100. Love is not a joy; it is a deep wonderful pain. It is a very deep, tearing, wonderful pain. – Sadhguru

101. Creation is the only way, or the only doorway to the Creator. If you reject creation, you can’t know anything about the Creator. – Sadhguru

102. If you go by one’s behavior, about what he’s doing or what he’s saying, then you will definitely come to a wrong conclusion, a wrong judgment. – Sadhguru

103. If you are truly a seeker of Truth, Truth cannot hide from you. – Sadhguru

104. Through the Grace of the Guru, in a moment, with just a clap of his hands, things can happen. – Sadhguru

105. A genuine seeker, a person who develops an urge within, will always find his Guru. – Sadhguru

106. Being with a Master is never comfortable, because He will break all your limitations, all your ideologies. – Sadhguru

107. Once you become aware, you have to make the little arrangements that are needed to put yourself in the right place. – Sadhguru

108. Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, only that person is free from everything, and that quality will be felt everywhere. – Sadhguru

109. We definitely don’t want to destroy the emotional aspect in a person, because emotion can be a tremendous tool if it is properly used with the right sense of awareness. – Sadhguru

110. If anything has to be done intensely, but at the same time without hope, love is the only way. – Sadhguru

111. People have not come together simply because they are loving. They have come together only out of their greed. – Sadhguru

112. The whole purpose of walking this path is to remain unsettled, not settle down into a new situation. – Sadhguru

113. Don’t become all wound up. There is enough nerve-racking past in you, which is already in knots. – Sadhguru

114. Don’t create new knots now. The old knots are already causing a lot of pain, causing a deep pit inside, which is eating you up in many ways. – Sadhguru

115. There is a whole eterninty ahead of you. There is no hurry. – Sadhguru

116. You are just praying, but today prayer has just become a wish list. – Sadhguru

117. About calling me…if you are in spiritual distress you don’t even have to call, I am always there. – Sadhguru

118. When can a man be really alone? Only when everything that is around him becomes a part of him and when nothing else exists. – Sadhguru

119. The need for privacy means a possibility of being offended. – Sadhguru

120. That’s where the whole problem is: whatever you think or feel, this is not ‘you’, this only a mess that you have gathered from outside. – Sadhguru

121. If you want to seek that which is eternal, that which is all pervading, that which is all inclusive, the normal energy that you have is not sufficient. – Sadhguru

122. Spirituality is not for pussycats, do you understand? You can’t do anything else in your life, but think you can be spiritual; this is not so. – Sadhguru

123. To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. – Sadhguru

124. The way we think is the way we become. Whatever you hold as the highest, naturally all your energies get drawn towards that. – Sadhguru

125. Don’t ever try to fight with your passions and desires. Fighting with them is like fighting the demon, Mahishasura. – Sadhguru

126. Just educate your passions, educate your desires to flow in the right direction, that is all. – Sadhguru

127. Just desire the highest in life. All your passions, direct them to the highest. Even if you get angry, direct it only towards Shiva. – Sadhguru

128. Shiva is not somewhere, he is here and now. It is you who is not. – Sadhguru

129. With half-hearted appeals, God never comes. With half-hearted appeals, Realization never happens. – Sadhguru

130. When a person has made ultimate reality the goal in his life, action becomes meaningless. – Sadhguru

131. There is another way to create without asking for anything, without ever thinking about anything, where things just happen. Before we arrive at that, a little bit of fired-up movement is needed. – Sadhguru

132. For a person who is thinking in terms of transcending life and death, good karma is as useless as bad. – Sadhguru

133. For a person who knows his limitations, even if something comes up in life, he’s not really affected; it doesn’t really touch him. – Sadhguru

134. Right now, why you think in terms of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ is simply because of the social moral code. – Sadhguru

135. Meditation may be a quick way which takes you to that level of subtleness, but for a lot of people it is not possible, because their karma, their body or their mind, something will not allow them to meditate. – Sadhguru

136. Everyone is making choices; even their compulsions are their choices. Choices made in unawareness are compulsions. – Sadhguru

137. Now the whole thing is shift into making conscious choices. – Sadhguru

138. Leaving the body is the moment of moving from one dimension to another dimension or, in a way, getting released from a certain level of bondage. – Sadhguru

139. A form is a limit; formless is limitless. – Sadhguru

140. When everything – not just everything – when the whole existence is included in you, only then you are liberated. – Sadhguru

141. Once an intellectual understanding comes, the next thing is to step into the experimental aspect. – Sadhguru

142. What has to happen will happen. Why are you worried about all those things? – Sadhguru

143. Once you become an individual, your destiny becomes yours. If your destiny is in your hands, will you choose bondage or freedom? – Sadhguru

144. Once some awareness seeps into you, working out the past, working your way through the past becomes simple. – Sadhguru

145. There is no need to search for God. There is no need to search for Truth. The moment your receptivity is right, Truth is. – Sadhguru

146. Existence is not interested in any person. When the energy is mature, it takes you back, it will absorb you into itself. That’s all. – Sadhguru

147. One day an elephant may walk in and take away your bamboo. Similarly, life is subject to many things. – Sadhguru

148. Once energies have matured to a certain point, where the other substances – the necessary foundation for another physical body – have been removed from it, energy has become just pure energy. – Sadhguru

149. Only people on the path of kriya yoga are capable of attending to the body in a scientific way. – Sadhguru

150. The pranayama that you are doing is a way to transform your life energies from just manufacturing a mass of flesh to manufacturing something so much subtler and so much more enduring than flesh. – Sadhguru