Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then you go beyond sex, you go beyond body, you go beyond mind. And for the first time you become aware of godliness, of ecstasy, of bliss, of truth, of liberation.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

We only half live when we only half think

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.