Jaggi Vasudev Quotes - Page 6

If it is conditional, it is not love

We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.