Jai Uttal Quotes

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.

Sitting with Maharaj-ji creates who I am as much as sitting in a 12 Step meeting creates who I am.

I feel for myself, that I'm able to relate to people regarding many different things in context to human spirituality.

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

I know that my work as a singer is important, it's valuable to me and to others, but I think that in the bigger picture, I'm just trying to keep my heart pure and open.

I've been through a lot. It doesn't make me enlightened, or this or that, but I've had a handful of experiences that have given me some information that I can share with others.

The ego is just part of who we are. Sometimes it's great and helps us move forward and sometimes it's a bummer.

Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh."

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!

I need to remember that I'm a human being too, so why can't I love me.

I don't feel like a celebrity, so sometimes when people approach me as such it's like, "What, who, me?".

If you believe everything comes from God, how can you say this is more important than that? Some things make more lasting impressions, but that's a whole nother question.

One thing that affects the event is where I'm at physically.

I don't feel we necessarily choose our life experiences. I think karma and grace give us what we need to have.

The star' status, it just doesn't mean much to me. Mostly I'm just around home and doing my thing and I feel pretty regular.

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.

God pervades every molecule so how can we think that spirituality is something else, and I see with my boy that complete awareness. Light is everywhere, it's in him, it's in everything.

I want to live right and that means learning how to be kind to myself.

I feel many, many challenges in my career but I try not to obsess about them. I deal with them, but not obsess.

I want to know what real devotion is, but then that's just a word.

Most of the time, not all of the time, but most of time, when I'm singing and playing music, I feel in my heart, that the ego issues of the heart and mind aren't there, or maybe they're there, but they're not bugging. Before and after they are.

I can think some things are more important than other's but even that is kind of weird to say because how is it so, especially if you believe on any level that it all comes from God.

When I was just beginning to have "celebrity" status, I would think I was a star and rolled with it a little but that was then.

I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am.