Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

She would live now, not read.

It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Every moment is an experience.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

While we live, let us live.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.