Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

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.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

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

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Our goal is self-transcendence

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

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...

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.