Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Look with all your eyes, look.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

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.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

The more you look, the more you see.