Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.