Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

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

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

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

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you know that you are your world, you have penetrated into a different kind of understanding. Then nothing else matters - all else is games and excuses.

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.