Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.

When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

The flowering of love is meditation.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I actually try not to go on my phone too much. That's something that's been a huge self-care move for me. I got rid of my iPhone, and so I'm actively working toward trying to be more present and not feeling uncomfortable when I don't have it as a coping mechanism.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.