Quote · The School of Greatness
Sadhguru: How to Turn Pain Into Wisdom, Not Wounds
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Is your life a pursuit of happiness or an expression of joy? These are not the same thing. Pursuing happiness means chasing something outside yourself. Expressing joy means what is inside you overflows outward. The best moments of anyone's life, Sadhguru notes, are always the expression moments — never the pursuit moments.
People approach relationships like they approach fruit trees: wring them until the juice comes out. But love is not something you extract from another person. It is a quality of your own emotion — a sweetness — that has nothing to do with the other person. If you bring a full, joyful self to a relationship, you share; if you arrive empty, you squeeze — and sooner or later, they run dry.
