Quotes About Meditation

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Meditation is the journey to happiness.

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on developing a widespread inner peace.

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering