Inner Engineering — Quotes

Here are some quotes from the book Inner Engineering by Sadhguru:

• Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.
• The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are.
• Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.
• Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being—fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.
• Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming.
• That which knows how to bend will not break.
• I do not know” is the doorway—the only doorway—to seeking and knowing.
• Freedom is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.
• Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.
• The moment you get strongly identified, you lose your perspective on life!
• In is the only way Out.
• Once you take charge of your inner life, there is no such thing as stress.
• Every human being lives in a perpetual state of insufficiency.
• Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
• Once your thoughts get organized, your emotions will also get organized.
• Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow.
• The present is the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this moment. This moment is eternity.
• Remain still. Allow your attention to slowly grow still as well. Do this for five to seven minutes a day. You will notice that your breath will slow down.
• If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn.