Top 411 Quotes & Sayings by Jaggi Vasudev - Page 7
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian author Jaggi Vasudev.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.
For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.
The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.
Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.
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.
This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you.
For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.
A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.
Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.
Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.
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.
Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.
We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.
If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.
Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.
Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.
In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.
There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?
The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.
Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.
The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.
Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.
I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.
I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.
Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.
If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.
Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.
In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.
Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.
Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.
If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.
If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.
It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.
The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.
The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.
If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.
Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.