Quotes About Meditation

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

A clean mind always delivers power.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.