„If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That’s the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.“

— Sadhguru

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„Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life.“
— Sadhguru
„If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment“
— Neale Donald Walsch
„I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.“
— Aleister Crowley
„Instead of "watching the thinker," you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation. In your everyday life, you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.“
— Swami Vivekananda