Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We're coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

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

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.