Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.