Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.