Quotes About Meditation

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.