Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.