Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice ­ that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.