Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

Age is irrelevant.

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

The past has no power over the present moment.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.