Jai Uttal famous quotes

World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.
-- Jai Uttal

#Heart #Bridges #Culture

Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan allows us to enter into a mystery world-a world where all the logic of our minds, all the condition and learning are left outside. And in this mystery, we create a temple inside of our hearts, a place of refuge, a place of love, a place of just being.
-- Jai Uttal

#Teacher #Heart #Practice

Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song.
-- Jai Uttal

#Song #Kirtan #Spirit

Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space — digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
-- Jai Uttal

#Heart #Space #Digging

The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the modern world. With fierce drumming and passionate singing they light up everyone around them and spread the deep joy of God's names. An evening with the Kirtaniyas will never be forgotten!
-- Jai Uttal

#Artist #Light #Practice

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.