Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.