Jaggi vasudev quotes

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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

If it is conditional, it is not love

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

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

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

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

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

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen, that's all. Does it mean to say - "I have to just sit and wait and someday it will fall upon me?" No, it is just that if you understand the fundamentals of living here, in this existence, you will see, for anything to happen, you must create the right kind of situation.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

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

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

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

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

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

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

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of past. These thoughts are useful for your survival process. You've picked up some amount of information; you want to survive in the world; this information is useful. If you're looking at life itself, these thoughts are meaningless.

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

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

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

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

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

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

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

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

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

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

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

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

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.

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

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

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

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

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

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.

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

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

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

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.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

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

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

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.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

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.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

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

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

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

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

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

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

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

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

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

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

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

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

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

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

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

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

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

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

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

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.

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

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.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

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

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

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

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

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

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.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.