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“Whatever you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication. You cannot take away anything by force from the mind.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Every moment of your life, every step, no matter how many places you think you are going, whether you are going to your office, your home or on a vacation, the body doesn’t know all that – it is walking straight to the grave. Every moment, it is going nowhere else. Right now because you are young, because of the play of hormones, you have forgotten this. But slowly, as time passes, it will become more and more apparent that the body is walking towards the grave.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“It takes a lot of intelligence to see “I am stupid.” The difference between a stupid person and an intelligent one is that an intelligent person knows he is stupid, but an idiot does not. Look at it in terms of existence and you. If you look at with what organization, capability and certainty a simple ant is conducting its life, you will see that you are quite stupid. Have you seen, even a simple ant – such a tiny thing – is dead sure of what he wants with his life. He knows what to eat, what not to eat, what is nourishing for him, what is not. He does not read that micro-print on the back of the package. He just knows what he wants.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“a human being, the more intelligent he becomes, the more confused he gets – every step is a confusion. Only an idiot is dead sure.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Human beings suffer much more than other creatures because we have a discretionary intellect. Most of a human being’s suffering is mental, and mental suffering is self-created. A human being is an expert at creating suffering for himself and for others. This is because he has a discretionary mind – he can choose to be any way he wants right now. He can make himself joyful or make himself miserable.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“If you know “I am stupid,” then you will not attach too much importance to your thought and you will start looking at life. If you start looking at life more, your intelligence will definitely flower. Then, thought is not a process, thought is not a problem, because not much thought will be there. If you don’t pay any attention to your thought, it will just die. Don’t pay attention to it. But you cannot stop paying attention to it unless you think or see that your thoughts are so petty and quite stupid compared to the rest of the existence. Without a single thought on their mind, an ant, a bird, and a bee all just know what to do.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Just look at yourself and see, when you were five years of age how alive you were and today how alive you are. Your aliveness has gone down, hasn’t it? Really gone down! With age our physical capabilities may go down, but aliveness need not go down. Even if you are a hundred years old, you can be as alive as a child. Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments by becoming selective in your involvement. Whatever you do willingly, that is your heaven. Whatever you do unwillingly, that is your hell.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Truth is that dimension which is not logically explainable. It does not fit into logic because logic is always dividing; truth is always unifying. So where will this logic fit into life?”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“They have told you, “Seeing is believing.” Seeing is not believing – everyone sees what they want to see.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Tomorrow” is the deepest cunning of your mind.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Imagination can do miraculous things. If you have enough control over your life energies and can empower your imagination, it will become a reality. There are many yogis who live in their own worlds with their own kind of planets, earth, everything. They live in a cave, but they have used their imagination and their life energies to create a whole new dimension of life. He lives there happily. A universe is contained inside the cave.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Having an aversion to something and an attraction towards something else is the basis of identification. Whatever you are averse to dominates your mind. The nature of your mind is such that if you say, “I do not want something,” only that thing keeps happening in your mind. There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“In yoga, we have always talked about 21 different realities that can happen simultaneously. Right here, right now, there are 21 realities going on without any geographical distance. It is just that it is not in your experience.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Every human being is born with the same possibility, but all of them do not make themselves into the same things even if they are given the same opportunities – because it is conscious, you can make yourself what you want.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“there are many ways to make minor corrections and make yourself a little more effective than before, but if you really want to unleash the mind – not control the mind – if you truly want to unleash the power of the mind, the fundamental thing is, your intellect should not be identified with anything.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“What you call moments of bliss, moments of joy, moments of ecstasy, moments of utter peace, these were moments when you were not thinking about anything but were just living.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“It is because people realized that identification is causing so much trouble that they immediately started giving you an antidote – “detachment.” The moment you detach yourself, your ability to experience life is also gone. Where there is no involvement, there is no life. Life cannot be experienced unless there is involvement – the deeper the involvement, the deeper the experience of life. However small the event may be, however small a piece of life may be, if you are deeply involved, it is a great experience for you. Nothing dramatic or spectacular needs to happen in your life. If you are deeply involved with the simplest aspect of your life, you will see every aspect of your life is spectacular. But why is so much detachment being taught everywhere? It is because of the fear of entanglement. It is from this fear that detachment is always being propagated. If you detach yourself from life, you are avoiding life. You are here to experience life, not to avoid life.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“if you keep your intellect unidentified from anything, starting from your body – if you do not even look at yourself as a man or a woman, if you do not identify with your family, your qualifications, your society, your caste, creed, community, nation, or whatever million other identifications that you take on in your life – every human being will naturally lead himself on to his ultimate nature.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“When your rationale is immature, it doubts everything. When your rationale matures, it sees everything in a completely different light.”
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“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Whatever you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. If”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Whether your mind is a misery or your mind is a miracle simply depends on whether you are allowing life to happen to you absolutely willingly or unwillingly.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“Detachment means you have disentangled yourself from the process that you call “body,” and from the process that you call “mind,” because both these things are accumulations from outside.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than your thoughts, your logic, or your intellect”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

“If you learn to use the tools of body, mind, emotions, and energy by choice, you will naturally become a very impactful human being.”
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“As life recedes in you, you will see nothing fantastic can ever happen. Only if life is happening exuberantly within, can it carry you to higher possibilities.”
― Sadguru, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget