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Pebbles Of Wisdom
PEBBLES OF WISDOM is a compilation of quotes and insights by Sadhguru from several talks, sathsangs and discourses over many occasions and many years.
This selection of gems by Sadhguru is something every reader will want to return to time and time again.
This selection of gems by Sadhguru is something every reader will want to return to time and time again.
121 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2008
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Sadhguru
138 books3,399 followersSadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary. Named one of India's 50 most influential people, Sadhguru's work has touched the lives of millions worldwide through his transformational programs. Sadhguru has a unique ability to make the ancient yogic sciences relevant to contemporary minds. His approach does not ascribe to any belief system but offers methods for self-transformation that are both proven and powerful.
An internationally renowned speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller Inner Engineering, A Yogi's Guide to Joy, Sadhguru has been an influential voice at major global forums including the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, addressing issues as diverse as socioeconomic development, leadership and spirituality. He has also been invited to speak at leading educational institutions, including Oxford, London Business School, IMD, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Wharton and MIT. In February 2017, Sadhguru was the recipient of the Padma Vibhushan Award by the Government of India, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.
Dedicated to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of humanity and gifted with utter clarity of perception, Sadhguru possesses a perspective on life that never fails to intrigue, challenge and surprise all those he encounters. Sadhguru established Isha Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization operating in more than 300 centers and supported by over 11 million volunteers worldwide. Through powerful yoga programs for inner transformation and inspiring social outreach initiatives, Isha Foundation has created a massive movement dedicated to addressing all aspects of human wellbeing.
Sadhguru has also initiated several projects for social revitalization, education and the environment through which millions of people have been given the means to overcome poverty, improve their quality of life and achieve community-based, sustainable development.
In the fall of 2017, Sadhguru initiated Rally For Rivers, a nationwide campaign aiming to implement sustainable and long-term policy changes to revitalize India's severely depleted rivers, which found great support among India's people and leadership. With over 162 Million individuals pledging their support, Rally for Rivers is the largest ecological movement in the world to date. In the fall of 2019, Sadhguru launched Cauvery Calling, a uniquely modelled project that focuses on enhancing farmer wealth while simultaneously impacting river flow and riverine ecosystems. It will enable farmers in the Cauvery basin spanning Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, to plant 2.42 billion trees.
In the United States, Isha Foundation is headquartered at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, Isha Institute is established as infrastructure for raising human consciousness and offers a variety of programs that provide methods for anyone to explore and experience the yogic science in its full depth.
About Sadhguru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
Visit - https://sadhguru.org/karma
An internationally renowned speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller Inner Engineering, A Yogi's Guide to Joy, Sadhguru has been an influential voice at major global forums including the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, addressing issues as diverse as socioeconomic development, leadership and spirituality. He has also been invited to speak at leading educational institutions, including Oxford, London Business School, IMD, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Wharton and MIT. In February 2017, Sadhguru was the recipient of the Padma Vibhushan Award by the Government of India, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.
Dedicated to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of humanity and gifted with utter clarity of perception, Sadhguru possesses a perspective on life that never fails to intrigue, challenge and surprise all those he encounters. Sadhguru established Isha Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization operating in more than 300 centers and supported by over 11 million volunteers worldwide. Through powerful yoga programs for inner transformation and inspiring social outreach initiatives, Isha Foundation has created a massive movement dedicated to addressing all aspects of human wellbeing.
Sadhguru has also initiated several projects for social revitalization, education and the environment through which millions of people have been given the means to overcome poverty, improve their quality of life and achieve community-based, sustainable development.
In the fall of 2017, Sadhguru initiated Rally For Rivers, a nationwide campaign aiming to implement sustainable and long-term policy changes to revitalize India's severely depleted rivers, which found great support among India's people and leadership. With over 162 Million individuals pledging their support, Rally for Rivers is the largest ecological movement in the world to date. In the fall of 2019, Sadhguru launched Cauvery Calling, a uniquely modelled project that focuses on enhancing farmer wealth while simultaneously impacting river flow and riverine ecosystems. It will enable farmers in the Cauvery basin spanning Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, to plant 2.42 billion trees.
In the United States, Isha Foundation is headquartered at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, Isha Institute is established as infrastructure for raising human consciousness and offers a variety of programs that provide methods for anyone to explore and experience the yogic science in its full depth.
About Sadhguru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
Visit - https://sadhguru.org/karma
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February 27, 2019
This book is very inspiring and makes you think of the world differently then you would have. This book is well written and Sadhguru makes you look at the world from a new angle. I love Sadhguru and his teachings and I really would recommend his books and his videos on Youtube for a lot of people (especially adults) I'm glad that I am going to his summer camp this summer.
July 5, 2022
Found this masterpiece at Isha life.🕉️
☮️ Love is just a vehicle for union. What you are longing for is that union. Emotion or love is just one more vehicle to get there. It is like a boat that takes you close to the other bank, but then turns around. It never lands you there.
☮️ Let us see how to make every breath of our life truly worthwhile, so that if you just sit here and breathe, it is a phenomenon – not just a meaningless inhalation and exhalation. Instead of being alive to it, we have given too much importance to worthless things that happen in our minds, missing the phenomenal dimension of creation and Creator in every breath.
☮️ The less your personality, the more your presence.
☮️ Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.
☮️ When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten.
☮️ Happiness has always been an internal phenomenon. The source of your happiness is inside of you.But right now, though it is inside, the switch is outside, in somebody else’s hands.
☮️ Our ideas of God are purely cultural. Culture is something that you wear; culture is something that you enjoy. But don’t ever use culture as a pursuit of truth.
☮️ Once you have an inkling of the immensity of life, once you see how small and stupid you are, you become receptivity itself.
☮️ God is a great creator. Management is your job.
☮️ How close you are to something, or somebody, is how deeply you have embraced it within yourself.
☮️ He may be just a beggar, or he may be Shiva himself. You don’t know who he is. So when you don’t know, the best thing is, if you see an ant,bow down to it; if you see an elephant, bow down to it; if you see a beggar, bow down to him; if you see a plant, bow down to it.
☮️ Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our hearts into what we do.
☮️ When you are constantly in pursuit of security, you are in pursuit of death.
☮️ I am one hundred percent for intoxication. I will always vote for intoxication. I never drink, nor do I take any drug from the outside. I just learnt a different way of getting drunk, all the time, at no cost and with no hangover, but at the same time remaining fully intoxicated. And it is good for your health.
☮️ Love is just a vehicle for union. What you are longing for is that union. Emotion or love is just one more vehicle to get there. It is like a boat that takes you close to the other bank, but then turns around. It never lands you there.
☮️ Let us see how to make every breath of our life truly worthwhile, so that if you just sit here and breathe, it is a phenomenon – not just a meaningless inhalation and exhalation. Instead of being alive to it, we have given too much importance to worthless things that happen in our minds, missing the phenomenal dimension of creation and Creator in every breath.
☮️ The less your personality, the more your presence.
☮️ Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.
☮️ When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten.
☮️ Happiness has always been an internal phenomenon. The source of your happiness is inside of you.But right now, though it is inside, the switch is outside, in somebody else’s hands.
☮️ Our ideas of God are purely cultural. Culture is something that you wear; culture is something that you enjoy. But don’t ever use culture as a pursuit of truth.
☮️ Once you have an inkling of the immensity of life, once you see how small and stupid you are, you become receptivity itself.
☮️ God is a great creator. Management is your job.
☮️ How close you are to something, or somebody, is how deeply you have embraced it within yourself.
☮️ He may be just a beggar, or he may be Shiva himself. You don’t know who he is. So when you don’t know, the best thing is, if you see an ant,bow down to it; if you see an elephant, bow down to it; if you see a beggar, bow down to him; if you see a plant, bow down to it.
☮️ Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our hearts into what we do.
☮️ When you are constantly in pursuit of security, you are in pursuit of death.
☮️ I am one hundred percent for intoxication. I will always vote for intoxication. I never drink, nor do I take any drug from the outside. I just learnt a different way of getting drunk, all the time, at no cost and with no hangover, but at the same time remaining fully intoxicated. And it is good for your health.
January 6, 2022
Loved most of it but some lines feel like they were written for the sake of writing something that would sound wise. Sadly, it doesn't. But yes, a few lines will make you think and realise some unnecessary things we need to let go.
July 25, 2022
This book is a collection of quotes and insights collected from sathsangs, talks, discourses etc from the well knows spiritual leader Sadhguru.
July 22, 2020
Wisdom is not knowledge. The knowledgeable person cannot see it, he is blind. Only the innocent person can see it, only a child, one who knows nothing, one who functions from the state of not knowing, can know what wisdom is. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, not at all; it has something to do with innocence. Something of the purity of the heart is a must; something of the emptiness of being is needed for wisdom to grow.
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"Only those who are like small children will be able to enter into my kingdom of God."
-Jesus Christ
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Yes, Jesus is right. Knowledge comes from without, wisdom wells up within. Knowledge is borrowed, wisdom is original. Wisdom is your insight into existence - not Buddha's insight, not Mahavira's insight, not my insight, but your insight, absolutely your insight into existence.
When you are able to see with no dust of knowledge on the mirror of your soul, when your soul is without any dust of knowledge, when it is just a mirror, it reflects that which is. That is wisdom. That reflecting of that which is, is wisdom.
Knowledge gratifies the ego, wisdom happens only when the ego is gone, when ego gets forgotten. Knowledge can be taught; universities exist to teach you. Wisdom cannot be taught, it is like an infection: you have to be with the wise, you have to move with the wise, and only then will something start moving inside you.
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"Only those who are like small children will be able to enter into my kingdom of God."
-Jesus Christ
✾❁✾❁✾❁✾❁✾❁
Yes, Jesus is right. Knowledge comes from without, wisdom wells up within. Knowledge is borrowed, wisdom is original. Wisdom is your insight into existence - not Buddha's insight, not Mahavira's insight, not my insight, but your insight, absolutely your insight into existence.
When you are able to see with no dust of knowledge on the mirror of your soul, when your soul is without any dust of knowledge, when it is just a mirror, it reflects that which is. That is wisdom. That reflecting of that which is, is wisdom.
Knowledge gratifies the ego, wisdom happens only when the ego is gone, when ego gets forgotten. Knowledge can be taught; universities exist to teach you. Wisdom cannot be taught, it is like an infection: you have to be with the wise, you have to move with the wise, and only then will something start moving inside you.
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May 13, 2016
Wow!!!!
‘Pebbles of Wisdom’ by Jaggi Vasudev is a book of quotations by Isha’s Sadhguru. I read this book cover to cover in twenty minutes and it was riveting. Sadhguru’s simple and powerful words speak out to you in a profound and calming way. And he certainly does not mince words at all. To sample:
“If you do not do what you cannot do, there is no problem with it. But if you do not do what you can do, you are a tragedy”
‘Pebbles of Wisdom’ by Jaggi Vasudev is a book of quotations by Isha’s Sadhguru. I read this book cover to cover in twenty minutes and it was riveting. Sadhguru’s simple and powerful words speak out to you in a profound and calming way. And he certainly does not mince words at all. To sample:
“If you do not do what you cannot do, there is no problem with it. But if you do not do what you can do, you are a tragedy”
August 28, 2017
REALLY GOOD QUOTES. IT WAS A SMALL HANDBOOK WITH A LOT OF APHORISMS. LIKED IT A LOT.
October 29, 2017
I would like to share the first quote that made me read this book “Spirituality is not something you do.If you stop all of your nonsense, you are spiritual.Spirituality is ultimate sense.
December 30, 2019
For me, Spirituality means Sadhguru as he is the one who has made me understand it better than anyone else. He speaks bigger things in such easier language that it becomes a possibility for you. Other Yogi Gurus that I have tried following either speak too basic that we already know through our parents or grandparents or speak in such difficult philosophies that it becomes a thing for old and not for us. This has made me read many books written by Sadhguru regularly since last few years and in each one of them, even if there are few repetitive things, I have managed to find out something new which excited me to learn more. This made me go for a small book named “Pebbles of Wisdom” published by Jaico which consists of around 108 quotes or one-liners said by Sadhguru in some or the other instances.
I have never spent money on any such books as I always feel that why would one pay anything above Rs. 50 for something that can be completed or finished within an hour of reading in times where we already have abundant knowledge available for free on Internet. But somehow, I had purchased this book in the initial period of me getting into Spirituality because of excitement which I actually read now after years of having it in my shelf. I just wanted it to be my last book of the Year 2019 so that I could end the year spiritually in terms of my reading journey. I also didn’t want to rush into a book hence needed a shorter format but an insightful one. And this book has been just that.
To begin with, one should go for this book only if one has followed Sadhguru and learnt basics otherwise everything shall just be words without meaning for you which shall irritate you more and take you away from Spirituality. If you have gone through the concepts that Sadhguru endorses, this book shall work like caffeine for you where you would get answers for so many confusions in life through the quotes that has been collated in this book and feel energized and positive suddenly.
Every quote is unique which makes your perspective about every topic have some viewpoint to keep into analysis for some days before changing yourself completely for good. The catalyst that each page and quote is, I must say, that 108 seemed to be very less at the end of the book, it should have been around 500 such quotes as with every page, I felt I was getting wiser and learning to feel gratitude more and more with many of my perspectives getting changed gradually too.
The quotes talk about everything – your mind, your life, your body, what you eat, how you eat, your responsibility towards planet, how you should treat the nature, your relationship with trees, your attitude towards other people, your mortality, meditation, yoga, patriotism, joy, peace, happiness, power of breathing, yogis, money, humility, ego etc. This book covers every nature of human being and every relationship that he maintains. It helps you to understand things from spiritual perspective and go for self-introspection and gradually towards self-realization and then, self-improvisation.
This is one of the best short reads for people into Spirituality. It is just that you need to be spiritual before picking this one. It shall finish within 30-40 minutes itself. To gain more from it, you shall have to keep re-reading it whenever you have time. The only drawback that I found in this book is that there are certain contradictions as some quotes speak something and then another one speaks almost opposite about the same topic. This is because the whole explanation of the same is not provided and just the quote is shared which might create confusion. Except that, I feel that there should have been more quotes in the book.
Overall, I loved it. I give the book 4.5* out of 5.
Thanks.
WRITING BUDDHA
I have never spent money on any such books as I always feel that why would one pay anything above Rs. 50 for something that can be completed or finished within an hour of reading in times where we already have abundant knowledge available for free on Internet. But somehow, I had purchased this book in the initial period of me getting into Spirituality because of excitement which I actually read now after years of having it in my shelf. I just wanted it to be my last book of the Year 2019 so that I could end the year spiritually in terms of my reading journey. I also didn’t want to rush into a book hence needed a shorter format but an insightful one. And this book has been just that.
To begin with, one should go for this book only if one has followed Sadhguru and learnt basics otherwise everything shall just be words without meaning for you which shall irritate you more and take you away from Spirituality. If you have gone through the concepts that Sadhguru endorses, this book shall work like caffeine for you where you would get answers for so many confusions in life through the quotes that has been collated in this book and feel energized and positive suddenly.
Every quote is unique which makes your perspective about every topic have some viewpoint to keep into analysis for some days before changing yourself completely for good. The catalyst that each page and quote is, I must say, that 108 seemed to be very less at the end of the book, it should have been around 500 such quotes as with every page, I felt I was getting wiser and learning to feel gratitude more and more with many of my perspectives getting changed gradually too.
The quotes talk about everything – your mind, your life, your body, what you eat, how you eat, your responsibility towards planet, how you should treat the nature, your relationship with trees, your attitude towards other people, your mortality, meditation, yoga, patriotism, joy, peace, happiness, power of breathing, yogis, money, humility, ego etc. This book covers every nature of human being and every relationship that he maintains. It helps you to understand things from spiritual perspective and go for self-introspection and gradually towards self-realization and then, self-improvisation.
This is one of the best short reads for people into Spirituality. It is just that you need to be spiritual before picking this one. It shall finish within 30-40 minutes itself. To gain more from it, you shall have to keep re-reading it whenever you have time. The only drawback that I found in this book is that there are certain contradictions as some quotes speak something and then another one speaks almost opposite about the same topic. This is because the whole explanation of the same is not provided and just the quote is shared which might create confusion. Except that, I feel that there should have been more quotes in the book.
Overall, I loved it. I give the book 4.5* out of 5.
Thanks.
WRITING BUDDHA
October 26, 2015
This book is a collection of quotes by Sadhguru on various occasions. It's a pretty small book with 108 quotes which can be read in less than an hour. Some, I could not process. Some, made perfect sense to me. I will have my favorite quotes hanging at my workstation.
October 17, 2017
I really don't understand how this nonsense gets published. Spoiler alert: it's a waste of time.
January 2, 2020
From Profane to Profound, some of the quotes made me stop, re-read and then smile! What a start to my 2020!
January 28, 2021
eternally grateful for this read
It's will touch the inner self within your body, and will definitely thanks for this read . . . .
It's will touch the inner self within your body, and will definitely thanks for this read . . . .
March 4, 2021
Some really inspirational and practical quotes!
January 12, 2026
Collection of wisdom in short ✨️
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