Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

There's more to life than physical and material.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.