Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

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

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.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Meditation cannot be taught, it can only be caught. I am meditation. If you are available you can catch it.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.