Musings of a Mystic

The mystic - Sadhguru Jaggi VasudevQuotes and Sayings

1. Without working on human consciousness, trying to change social or national or global realities means there is no serious intention.
    
2. What you can do and what you cannot do outside is always a question of capability. But when it comes to the inside it is just a question of willingness.
    
3. The greatest crime that you can do to humanity is to teach your children that suffering is a part of their life. You have taken away the possibility of them being joyous human beings.
    
4. Fundamentally, the only thing you can give is yourself.
    
5. Life is far beyond meaning, Life is beyond meaning and that's why it is so beautiful.
    
6. Only when you are truly happy, you can be concerned about somebody. When you are unhappy you are only concerned about yourself.
    
7. Whenever you are happy, the real source of happiness is within you. It bubbles up. It is just that you are looking for an external stimulus to make you happy.
    
8. We know how to go to the moon, but the tragedy is that we still do not know how to live on planet earth.
    
9. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
    
10. Being with a Master is never comfortable, because He will break all your limitations, all your ideologies.
     
11. Till something becomes a reality in our life, if we talk about it, it amounts to lying. The whole world is lying to themselves and to everybody about God.
     
12. Religions of the world are not bout one man’s belief against another, but an opportunity for all humans to each to their common ultimate source.
     
13. Positive thinking is about trying to escape reality. It’s about wanting to look at one side of life, and missing out on another. You may ignore the other, but the other will not ignore you. Right now, you can choose to ignore a black cloud in the sky, but it’s not going to ignore you.
     
14. When you become meditative, you will see, your intellectual capabilities will increase many times more than what it is right now. Not because meditation makes you intelligent, but because meditation clears up the mess, the muck that’s gathered on the glass of the flashlight. As your meditation deepens, it just clears up the muck more and more and the flashlight becomes more and more powerful. It shows you things more and more clearly.