Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.