Jaggi Vasudev quotes:

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.

Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It's time to regain it.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.