Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

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

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

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

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

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

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

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

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

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.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

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

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

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

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.