Quotes About Meditation

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Your mind is your religion.

I got my own way of praying.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.