Quotes About Meditation

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what has helped me keep going.

I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.

The more you identify with your mind, the further away you are from Your Self.

Sutra literally means thread.

What and why were never questions for me. How was the only question.

There is a point of convergence in your energetic body that stretches beyond the physical body. It is approximately seventeen to nineteen inches from the point between your eyebrows. You must search for the point where the vision meets at an acute angle of eleven degrees. Finding that point of convergence boosts the akasha, or etheric element, within you. The moment the element of akasha is dominant, you will find the clarity of your perception hugely enhanced.

Velliangiri" literally means "silver mountain

The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as "you" and "me." It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga.

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

Those who turn to the Master with open hearts will feel his power and experience peace.

ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Now I would tell all those who wish to truly see the blossoms to cast off the world and live like me among the mountains

I long now to be alone in some far-off cave and think without thought of others' eyes on me

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Ferryman, for tea, scoop up those reflections of cherry blossoms.