Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

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.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

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.

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

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

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

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

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.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

We don't have to test our boundaries anymore. We definitely know what they are.

It's difficult to really assess what I've done right per say, but if I did have to point out, I'd say that I never really looked to have goals that will limit me. When one knows where he is going to or wants to end up, he/she actually doesn't realise that the goal is more limiting, than liberating.

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.