Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

I love what I do, and I just remember that every breath and every moment is a gift and it can be taken away at any time, so I want to appreciate it and be grateful for it while it's here.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.