Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.

I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

I don't take anything personal.

No praise, no blame. Just so.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.

Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.