Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Imagination … which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions that are not immediately derived from facts ...

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.