Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.