Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I'm happy I found discipline, something I love, and I also found God.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

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

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

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.