Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you listening?

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.