No One Should Be Labelled As Disabled

“No person can claim he has a perfect body or a perfect mind. I am disabled in one way, you are disabled in another way. In some way, every one of us is disabled if we compare ourselves to someone else.”

—Sadhguru

It is our privilege to have you here. Life has come in so many forms, but societies have labels as to what is normal and what is not normal. But actually, if we look at any individual who has all four limbs intact, compared to the next person, are they not disabled in some aspect of life? If you run with Mr. Bolt, even with two good legs, will you not feel like a cripple?

So let us not brand ourselves or anyone else one way or the other, because life has come in so many ways. You have to respect that and do your best about it because it is a miracle, in the sense–today morning, the dosa or idli that you had was made with the soil that we walk upon, and that food became flesh and bone. In such a phenomenally complex process, which we have taken for granted unfortunately, certain things sometimes do not work the way we think they should.

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