Quotes About Meditation

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural, original state.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

Loneliness is good practice for eternity.