Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

Unhappiness was my god.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!