Short quotes by Sadhguru
The walls of protection we build around ourselves to protect from external threat become the very walls of self-imprisonment
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In the universities somehow the faces are longer; maybe it's the weight of knowledge or something.
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Those who are very interested in leaving their footprints on the planet, they shall never fly.Freedom Limitation Possibility
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Life Quotes
Anything beyond survival will not enter your life unless you strive for it, what is needed for survival opens up naturally
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what you pursue, you will never forget. What is imposed upon you will never be useful in your life.
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If you had everything you could ever dream of, what would you want? If you do not invest that much thought into your life, that means you are super short-sighted
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Health is not just being disease-free. Health is when every cell in your body is bouncing with life
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If you want to receive, you have to give. This is not a marketplace rule. This is the way of life
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You being a pleasant piece of life is one hundred percent in your hands, if you take charge of it
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The most effective way of touching lives around you is to break your own barriersLife Inclusiveness Spirituality
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One Liners Quotes
The line between sanity and insanity is very thin, if you are angry you are pushing the line, people keep pushing the line
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No job is inherently stressful. What causes stress is our compulsive reaction to challenging situations
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Devotion is when you hold the wellbeing of others above your own.One liners Devotion Well being
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Entering the spiritual path means you have become conscious of your sufferingOne liners Spirituality Suffering
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Funny Quotes
Our presence here is just for a short period of time. We do not have to shorten it by fighting each other
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There’s an enormous possibility on Facebook, you can even love those people who don’t even exist
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When people are alone, they become spiritual. When in company, they become religiousFunny Religion Spirituality People
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The whole world is busy trying to teach everybody something that has not worked in their lives.
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Philosophers are usually out-of-work men - not many women philosophers, isn't it? Out-of-work men have an explanation as to why they're out of work, so they keep churning up philosophies.
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A lot of people believe Yoga started in California, I met someone who seriously believed it was Madonna who started Yoga
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Schools are factories to manufacture certain kind of people, things got streamlined into assembly lines during industrialization, somebody thought children too should get into assembly lines
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Our Parents (generations) also wore torn clothes, but out of compulsion, now (youth) by choice
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You get up in the morning & smile. Smile is not about somebody, Smile happens when you are feeling in a certain way, unless you are a trained PR person, otherwise smile happens because something is happening within you. It is a pleasant way to start your day
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what is my mission? Do you want to bring peace to the world? I just want to live in better company
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There is too much talk about heaven hell because too many people have made a hell out of themselves
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Truth Quotes
It's not just bad things that kill you, good things that you're not ready for can kill you.
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Intellect wants to conquer the truth. Devotion just embraces the truthTruth Wisdom Intellect Devotion
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Thought and emotion are not separate entities. The way you think is the way you feelTruth Emotion Being human Thought
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The moment you identify with something that you are not, you are moving from truth to untruth
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Love Quotes
A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with lifeLove Spirituality Spiritual process
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Lust is a strong need. Love is not a need. When you love, you settle down; nothing more is needed
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Scale up your love! Why only love one person when you can fall in love with the whole universe
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Once you have no expectations of what the other should do, you will have a successful love affair.
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You know peace, you know love, only problem is that you can't hold onto it (without sadhana)
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Not many people are ready to have that kind of a love affair where it'll make two lives into one.
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In sex based relationships what is usually passing off as Love is just a mutual benefit scheme
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If you are a source of joy by yourself & do not try to extract joy from another person, you will have wonderful relationships with anybody
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Joy, peace, and love aren't spiritual goals. They are the starting point for living sensibly.
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If you know how to touch the core of a human being, everyone is willing to do the best for youLove Inclusiveness Spirituality
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Inspirational Quotes
For a committed person, there is no such thing as failure - just lessons to be learned on the way
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If you nurture the root, you don’t have to bother about the fruit - it will come naturally.Inspirational Success Witty Wisdom
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You don't have to be better than everyone else, but you have to be at your best.Inspirational Philosophy Success Witty
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When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.Inspirational Wisdom Choice Consciousness
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Leadership should not be an aspiration. It should be a consequence of competence.Inspirational Leadership Wisdom
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If you want to shoot straight, you’ve got to be level-headedInspirational Success Wisdom Balance
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Competitors are not enemies. They are people who keep reminding you of your own shortcomings. Your quality control.
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It is the ability to bring out the best in others that makes you a leader.Inspirational Leadership One liners
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Those who try to avoid uncertainty only end up avoiding possibilities.Inspirational One liners Possibility
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All possibilities are problems when they are not realized.Inspirational One liners Problems Possibility
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Everyone is capable of doing great things but socially we are teaching them to do easy thingsInspirational Success Society Spirituality
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It is not the length but the strength of one's life that matters.Inspirational Life Success Truth
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You are only given the raw material for your life. What you make out of it is up to you.Inspirational Life Willingness Possibility
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Not disaster or disease, stagnation is the worst thing that can happen to a human beingInspirational Success Truth Being human
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in any sphere of life if you do not know involvement and intensity you will not get anywhereInspirational Life Success Involvement
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Spirituality Quotes
To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual processSpirituality Spiritual process
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The idea of doing Sadhana is that all your questions will burn, not that you will find answers
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Without establishing a non-discriminatory way of looking at everything, you will never be a yogi
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Once you are constantly aware of your mortality, your spiritual search will be unwaveringSpirituality Spiritual process
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You are a spiritual being trapped in a physical body, not a physical being acting out spirituality
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Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself
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If you are seeking infinite, installment is not the way. It will be an endless installment.
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Death Quotes
If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave
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The dead can be preserved, life cannot be preserved, it has to be expended as intensely as possible
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If you go after what's easy the next thing will be sleep and then death.Death Inspirational Success Truth
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Death is the only certainty in life. If you lived your life well, death is not at all a bad thing
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Yoga Quotes
It is important to understand that though yoga is Indian in origin, it is universal in appeal
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Whatever physical activity you do – if you do it with involvement and joy, you are a karma yogi
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Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga
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Yoga is a method to turn inward and access that dimension which is the source of who you are
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Yoga means... if you sit here, the whole existence becomes you, not even yours, it becomes you
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Success Quotes
People's idea of success is to be just one step ahead of another lame person.Success Truth One liners People
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If there is total clarity, there is no need for courage, because clarity will carry you across
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You may take the right direction, but if you do not go far enough, you will not get anywhere
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Confidence is no substitute for clarity. To be successful, you need clarity, not confidence
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Philosophy Quotes
The most precious thing in life is life itself. Are you getting this now or only on your deathbed?
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Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside.Philosophy Truth Wisdom One liners
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If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become limitless.
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Teachings and philosophies cannot transform people - they can only inspire.Philosophy One liners Transformation
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The intellect is like a knife – the sharper, the better. As long as you know how to handle it.
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Tiger mask, lion mask. Monkey mask, donkey mask. Man mask, woman mask. Divine! Only if you unmask
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Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolutionChange Solution Spirituality Willingness
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You can use this mind either to create wellbeing or misery for yourself. Everyone has this choice.
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If your logic doesn't fit into it there's a problem with your head, not with the Existence.
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Money, influence, comfort and intelligence come as blessings, but become curses for most people
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When it comes to children, if you don't feed them with false information, that would be the greatest service you could do. Parent means somebody who does not bullshit
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To grow does not mean that you think too much of yourself. Growth is dissolutionWisdom Spirituality Transformation
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If someone is hurting and it does not hurt you at all, that means you have forsaken your humanity.
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If God was against intelligence, if he did not want you to use it, he wouldn't have given it to you
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All predictions are an insult to humanity, that means there is no value for what a human being is.
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the journey is from being a part of creation to be part of the source of creation or the Creator.
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Stress is just your inability to manage your body, your mind, your emotions and your energies.
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in the mode of competition, only one can win - all others are losers, It’s a horrible way to create a society.
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People are always referring to human as a limitation, as a compulsion, not as a liberation, what you call as ‘myself’ for most human beings is a bundle of compulsions, that they can only be like this, they can only do this, they can only do that. Unfortunately they are beginning to decorate their limitationsBeing human Compulsion Liberation Limitation
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What is human is only one end fixed, the other end wide open, in terms of human consciousnessBeing human Consciousness Possibility
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We think acquiring some information is education. No, enhancing your perception is what is needed.
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As you get identified with this thing and that thing and that thing you're throwing your anchor, hoping your ship will go somewhere. It'll only sink. There's only one place it can go (down).
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Your problem is just this - your body and your mind are not taking instructions from you, that's all.
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If you do ordinary things with absolute involvement, you will become extra-ordinaryChange Transformation Involvement
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The greatest fulfillment in life is to do something which is much larger than yourself.Happiness Inspirational Life Being human
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The Beauty of Motherhood is not a certain capability but willingness to includeRelationship One liners Inclusiveness Willingness
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An intelligent person knows that he is a fool but a fool does not know that he is a foolFunny Philosophy Truth Intelligence
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It is time to conquer the world with inclusiveness and generosity, not with wars and brutal power.
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To volunteer is to become willing. To be willing beyond personal choices is the way to liberation
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Those who think women cannot be leaders are not married.Funny Leadership Relationship One liners
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One who does not touch the stillness within and without will invariably get lost in the movementWisdom Spirituality Mysticism Water crisis
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The best thing that you can ever do for your guru... is that you drop your nonsense and grow
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Clarity is a consequence of handling your confusion consciously.Witty One liners Consciousness
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I refuse to recognize people as Muslims, Christians, or Hindus. I see human beings as human beings.
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Memory is useful. But if you do not know how to keep it aside, that becomes your biggest bondage
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If joy is not the ambiance of your life, even life's most pleasurable activities become burdensome
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It is not the opulence of the structure but the inclusiveness of the people which makes a home
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If you are really conscious that time is ticking away, you will naturally long to become a yogi.
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Even in garbage, you may find proteins and other nutrients, but this is not the thing to eat (Even in damaging activities there is fun, but not worth doing them)
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Optimism and pessimism are nothing but attitudes. Either way, you are trying to deny reality.
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Being human means having the possibility to consciously shape yourself.Being human Consciousness Possibility
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A true hero is someone who has tamed these rutting elephants that you call “mind” and “ego”
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The only way to know life is if you get to the other side of the mirror.Life Wisdom One liners Mysticism
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Whether you like something or you dislike something ‒ either way, you exaggerate the reality
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Passion is like gasoline in the tank, but you also need a steering wheel to go where you want to go
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If you are unable to see things as they are, you can never handle life the way it should be handled
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Life is neither a gift nor a punishment. It is just a phenomenon that you need to learn to ride
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All human experience has a chemical basis. Yoga is about making a great chemical soup of yourself
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Life is not about pushing your way through. Life is about allowing life to push through you.
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A marriage is not an absolute thing that you can do once and forget. It is an active partnership.
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If you allow your humanity to flow, you will not do anything that would cause damage to somebody.
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Suffering is not showered upon us, it is manufactured. And the manufacturing unit is in your mind
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If you really know the pain of ignorance, then a Master arises. You don't have to look for Him.
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Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker
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There is no such thing as ancient wisdom. Wisdom has to be contemporary otherwise it's meaningless
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A society which does not protect, respect and honor its women can have no claim of being civilized
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Absolute passion towards the Divine. Compassion towards all life. Dispassion towards yourself.Life Wisdom Compassion Spirituality
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Culture is always an evolving process. Any culture that needs to be preserved is already archival
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If you choose, you can be joyful every moment of your life. It's time you made your choice.
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Being human means being capable of looking at every life form with a sense of tendernessLife Being human Responsibility
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Spirituality is not about peace, joy, or going to heaven - it is about exploring your self totally
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If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven
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As long as you separate yourself from life around you, you cannot reverberate with existence
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If your experience of life is not limited to your physicality, you are naturally inclusive.Life Truth Experience Inclusiveness
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Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections
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LOVE - neither can you learn, nor can you practice, nor can you dispense it. It is just a flowering
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Prayer means you are trying to talk to God. Meditation means you are willing to listen to God
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What you do is not the point. It is the level of involvement within you which transforms youAction Transformation Involvement
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If you allow life to happen to you in its utmost possibility, enlightenment is a natural flowering
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If you learn to just sit here and reverberate as a piece of life, that is the ultimate ecstasy
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Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it isWisdom Perspective Intelligence Intellect
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If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking
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The conclusions that you make in your mind can seriously impede your ability to experience life
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Only miserable people will have a long life, because if you are miserable you will always feel life is too long that you will want to cut it short.
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Time moves at the same pace for everybody, (but) there is "energy" that you call "life", this you can pitch it at different levels.
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To be involved and not entangled is something that is essential for people to be effective in lifeLife Success Involvement People
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Someone else's belief system looks absolutely ridiculous to you, but they are laughing at your belief system too.Funny Religion Belief One liners
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Fundamentally, management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do. If everybody around you is doing his best, that is the best possible management that can happen.
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More people in the world are suffering from indigestion than of hunger. Unfortunately, that's the reality.Reality Suffering World People
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A criminal is also concerned about human well-being, but his idea of humanity is just himself. Somebody's idea of humanity is him and his family; somebody else's idea of humanity is him and his country; somebody else's includes the whole world. Everybody is concerned about human well-being in different proportions.
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[About Religious Clashes]Religion should have made people Divine, but it is not even making them human.
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Do you want to rule the world or do you want to serve the world? Ultimately, that is the choice.
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The heavens that people have imagined are such lousy places that I would never want to go there.
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Fear, anger, and hatred essentially come from a lack of perspective as to what life is all about.
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People who are bursting with life do not need a purpose to live. Life is a purpose unto itself.
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It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed which causes stress.
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What kind of food you eat should depend not on your values and ethics, but on what the body wants
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You should not decide your life and the course of your life based on immediate compulsions.
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See how to go ahead in life. Constantly looking at the rear view mirror will make you crash
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'I am stressed out' means your mind is in a state of psychological friction within yourself
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In the very nature of things, life can never get perfect - there is always room for improvement.
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The virtues of fear are too many to list, It can even render you short of breath, and short of everything that is life.
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Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that unawareness has built.One liners Meditation Awareness
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All limitations are only in your psychological framework, not in the existential framework of life.
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If you conduct your relationships responsibly, with love and care, they will go wellLove Relationship Responsibility
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If you pay enough attention, everything in the existence has to yield to human consciousness
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Wellbeing is possible only when there is a deep sense of inclusiveness with everything around you
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