Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

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

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

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

Generally, I don't need any music to dance. For me, dance is not because of the music. It is simply because I've found the rhythm of life.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

If it is conditional, it is not love

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

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

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

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

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

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

This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.