Sadhguru

incredible possibilities of the imagination

whitewashing or sugarcoating your reality

make joy your constant companion.

One afternoon, I had nothing to do, and I had recently fallen out of love, so I went up Chamundi Hill.

realized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings.

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. When you are able to create yourself the way you want, you can

create your life the way you want as well. Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.

Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion.

Absolutely nothing is required—no reaction, no action, no capability—other than being aware of the basic fact that your responsibility is limitless. You could sit in one place and be aware of it. You could walk the street and be aware of it. You could be working, cooking, or even lying in bed, and be aware of it.

Being fully responsible is to be fully conscious. What you consider to be your body is what you have gathered through ingestion. What you consider to be your mind is what you have gathered through the five senses. What is beyond that—which you did not gather—is who you are. Being alive is being conscious. Everybody is conscious to some degree, but when you touch the dimension beyond body and beyond mind, you have touched that which is the very source of consciousness. You realize then that the entire universe is conscious. You inhabit a living cosmos.

The physical and psychological dimensions belong to the realm of polarities—painpleasure, love-hate, masculine-feminine, and so on.

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, “I am responsible,” you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, “I am not responsible,” you will not have the ability to respond