Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

by Sadhguru

No tradition, however time-honored, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.

There is something within every human being that dislikes boundaries, that is longing to become boundless.

It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive.

The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.

Only if you realize you are responsible do you have the freedom to create yourself the way you want to be, not as a reaction to the situations in which you exist. Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.

The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow.

The body knows only survival and procreation. And it is walking straight to the grave every moment, nowhere else.

All life on this planet is just a recycle of the Earth.

You are on the verge of breaking down because you have made a small aspect of your life the whole of your life.