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“Why are you making all your incapabilities natural and human? Now if a few things aren’t going smoothly in my life and if I don’t become anxious about them, if I retain my sense of balance and continue to do what I have to do, would you call me inhuman? Is that what you’re saying? When things aren’t going the way you want them to go, that’s when your capability is most needed. When you become anxious, do you become more capable or less capable? Less capable, isn’t it? When you most need your capability, you’re forsaking it; would you call that an intelligent way to act? So what you’re saying is to live unintelligently is human; that’s a very wrong idea. To live intelligently is what being human is all about.”
― Sadhguru, Mystic's Musings

“Once your intellect—or buddhi, as it is termed in the yogic taxonomy—gets identified with something, you function within the realm of this identity. Whatever you are identified with, all your thoughts and emotions spring from that identity.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

“Yoga is a journey toward a reality in which you experience the ultimate nature of existence as borderless unity.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

“After experience had taught me that all things which frequently take place in ordinary life are vain and futile, and
when I saw that all the things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them; I determined at last to inquire whether
there was anything which might be truly good, and able to communicate its goodness, and by which the mind might be affected to the exclusion of all other things; I determined, I say, to inquire whether I might discover and attain the
faculty of enjoying throughout eternity continual supreme happiness..
I could see the many advantages acquired from honor and riches, and that I should be debarred from acquiring these things if I wished seriously to investigate a new matter…But the more one possesses of either of them, the more the pleasure is increased, and the more one is in con-
sequence encouraged to increase them; whereas if at any time our hope is frustrated, there arises in us the deepest pain. Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we
must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what pleases
them. . .. But the love towards a thing eternal and infinite alone feeds the mind with a pleasure secure from all pain… The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the
mind has with the whole of nature….The more the mind knows, the better it understands its forces and the order of
nature; the more it understands its forces or strength, the better it will be able to direct itself and lay down the rules for itself; and the more it understands the order of nature,
the more easily it will be able to liberate itself from useless things; this is the whole method.”
― Baruch Spinoza