Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

Become conscious of being conscious.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you are watching television, and something within you is witnessing the process of watching television. Witnessing is deeper, far deeper. It is not equivalent to watching. Watching is superficial. So remember that meditation is witnessing.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.