423 Quotes by Jaggi Vasudev

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.

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

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

Yoga is not a practice - the word 'yoga' means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.

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

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

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

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.

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.