Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw