Sunday 20 May 2018

Midnights With the Mystics: A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Cheryl Simone







Your body is on loan from the planet.  All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you. 


Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.


The moment your mind says that someone or something is not okay, you cannot love.


If you want to live sensibly and joyfully, it is extremely important that you do not fool yourself. 


There is no you; there is just an accumulated past. 


Who you are right now, your whole personality, everything that you are, is a complex accumulation of your impressions of life itself.  This is like your software.  This is what is referred to as karma.  It is the volume of your impressions.  Everything you have perceived has imprinted itself on your mind and even on your energy.  The very way your body behaves, the very way your energies behave, is a result of the past impressions of your karma. 


If you stop gold plating your limitations, if you stop seeing your shackles as ornaments that you wear and are proud of, then it is very simple and you are on fulltime.  Please see how many deceptive ways you seek support for your limitations from the people around you.



Most people who claim to be adventurous avoid adventure every chance they get.



Life around you will respond and create itself to match the way you are and not the way you or the people around you think you are.  What you think about yourself is existentially irrelevant.


Cultivated devotion is not devotion, just deception.


Without grace nobody really gets anywhere. 


What is really meant instead of “I love you” is “I have some needs I want to fulfill”.


Most people don’t want truth.  They just want solace.