Quotes About Mantras

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

We must find our own self-soothing techniques—mantras, meditation, movement—and embrace them in times of difficulty.

The ancient rishis discovered these laws of sound alliance between nature and man. Because nature is an objectification of Aum, the Primal Sound or Vibratory Word, man can obtain control over all natural manifestations through the use of certain mantras or chants.

One of Mama's parenting mantras was: "Oh, Helen Michelle, I have yet to begin to embarrass you.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in. They serve as

I call these lifelines: little mantras that come to me spontaneously in the crisis moments of races -- attempts by The Person I Want to Be to gain my weaker side's acceptance of the pain I am inflicting on myself.

Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.