41 Yogi Bhajan Quotes On Love, Healing, Meditation & Yoga

Yogi Bhajan was a yogi and spiritual teacher, who introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States. He taught over 8,000 classes and inspired millions of people to keep up and live in their excellence.

List of 41 Yogi Bhajan quotes on love, healing, meditation, and yoga:

#1 “Never give a man your opinion; they get offended. Let him ask your opinion. What is a man? He is pure, living, shining ego. When you give your opinion, he has to counteract it; he has to. When he asks your opinion, he has to obey it because he asked. The same ego which is going to reject is going to obey. Do you understand the psychology?”

#2 “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

#3 ”Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.”

#4 ”Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.”

#5 “The techniques of Kundalini Yoga form the owner’s manual for human consciousness. Yoga explores your dimensions, depth, nature, and potential as a human being. In simple terms, that is all that yoga means.”

#6 “If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.”

#7 “The question is, “Are you spiritual or are you not?” The Truth is you are. The reality is you don’t believe it.”

#8 “The most difficult thing on the earth one can practice is to be humble. It is not easy; it is difficult, because you have to surmount the existence of whole maya and to recognize that God is by your side. Then you feel the humility.”

#9 ”When you experience your origin as a reality, you are happy. Be constant under all circumstances and relate to one thing – you are a part of Infinity and always lean on that power – then you’ll never be unhappy.”

#10 ”Working by heart means using your feelings and emotions to lead you to your spiritual sense of existence.”

#11 “Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.”

#12 ”You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.”

#13 “Love is an energy. Love is a power. Love is a strength. Love is a totality. Love has no fear and no vengeance. Love has every answer.”

#14 ”Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person’s awakening.”

#15 “You must, in your own mind, understand that you are the keeper of your own grace, your own character, your own commitment, your own standard.”

#16 “In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.”

#17 “In life one thing you cannot get rid of and that is called challenge. Whether you challenge the challenge or you give in to the challenge, that decides the spirituality.”

#18 ”If you cannot bless yourself, then nobody can bless you.”

#19 ”I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.”

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#20 “You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.”

#21 ”Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.”

#22 ”Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.”

#23 “Hope is not a prediction of the future, it’s a declaration of what’s possible.”

#24 ”In all darkness, there is a light and in all light, there is darkness.”

#25 “Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love, and kindness.”

#26 “Never trust that there is a limit to your kindness. Never trust that there is a limit to your compassion. Never trust that there is a limit to your capacity.”

#27 ”If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.”

#28 “You must, in your own mind, understand that you are the keeper of your own grace, your own character, your own commitment, your own standard.”

#29 “There are two ways of living in this world; the way of worry and the way of relaxation. If you worry, you have to concentrate to imagine, and it becomes physical work. But if you turn your mind to the Universal Mind, then things will come to you.”

#30 “Three mantras you should never say: (1) I don’t know. (2) I’m not ready. (3) I can’t do it.”

#31 “How many times do you keep yourself from God-consciousness when you try to pretend you are great and holy and you try to shield that negative part of you?”

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#32 ”Vibrate on the cosmos and the cosmos will clear your path. When fear and insecurity leave you, truth and spirit will be with you.” 

#33 “Recognize the other person is you.” 

#34 “You are dead because you’re not alive to your consciousness. But when you face the sequence and relate it to the consequence and then surmount the consequences, you become alive.”

#35 “What is a human being? A magnetic field, that’s all he is. What kind of magnetic field is it? It vibrates on its own nucleus and in proportion with its existence with the entire universe.”

#36 “Your wealth will increase, your values will increase, your projection will increase, if you simply love to live, just love yourself and live yourself.”

#37 “The most difficult thing on the earth one can practice is to be humble. It is not easy; it is difficult, because you have to surmount the existence of whole maya and to recognize that God is by your side.” 

#38 “Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can’t help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good.” 

#39 “You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.” 

#40 “Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too” 

#41 “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” 

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