Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

I'm actually very spiritual.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

I have visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah a couple of times before, and each time, it fills my heart with so much love and gratitude.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.