Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Love is a taste of paradise.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

Only the soul that loves is happy

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.