Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.