Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

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

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

Integrity is about pursuing bigger goals that are beyond your personal success. If people see you only for yourself, they will not trust you. And, without trust, no growth and success are possible.