Quotes About Spirituality

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.

There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without sam?dhi.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious—more conscious than ever.

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority—to the very innermost shrine of your being.

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.

Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent

Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.