Top 411 Quotes & Sayings by Jaggi Vasudev - Page 2

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

I speak passionately. I drive passionately. If I hit a ball, I will do it passionately, too. Because I don't understand how you go through life without involvement. Whatever I am doing in my life, whether big or small, I am 100 per cent involved.

Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.

The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

I'm comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.

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.

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.

The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.

If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you what kind of food it is happy with.

Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call it a technology because you don't have to believe it; you just have to learn to use it. It does not matter what your religion is, what your colour is, what your race is, or where you come from. If you learn to use yoga, it works for you.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.

There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.

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

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.

All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

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.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

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

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

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

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.