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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.
Sep 29, 2025
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
Look within, thou art the Buddha.
When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
Life is available only in the present moment.
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
Meditation creates more time than it takes.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
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