Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for.

The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .