Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

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

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

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 think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

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.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

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

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

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.

If it is conditional, it is not love

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

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.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

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

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

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

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

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

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

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

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

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

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

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

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

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

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.

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

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

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

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

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.

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