Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

The flowering of love is meditation.

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

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

It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

In quietness the soul expands.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Be still and turn within to the great source.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.