Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

Don't live life as a spectator.

I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

Life is not a spectator sport.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

There are no bystanders in this life.

Don't be fair, be engaged.