Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.