Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

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

The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

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.

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.