{"author":"Sadhguru","author_id":"Sadhguru","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["enligtenment","self-help"],"id":18416,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at everything the way it is. When you are in it, there is no way to dissect yourself. You can catch hold of somebody else and dissect them, but you cannot dissect yourself. Even if you do, you cannot see everything. If you are using any faculty of the mind you cannot truly be aware of the nature of the mind.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["enlightenment","mind","self-help"],"id":20288,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["giving-and-receiving","grace","guru","yoga"],"id":25704,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["spirituality"],"id":42439,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["methodology","mysticism","spirituality","truth"],"id":44008,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["enlightenment","mysticism","self-help"],"id":49608,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["mysticism","philosophy","receptivity","scriptures","spirituality"],"id":63022,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["elightenment","mysticism","self-help"],"id":63369,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["pleasure","yoga","yogi"],"id":75528,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["bliss","ecstasy","liberation","sainthood"],"id":92053,"author_id":"Sadhguru"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}