Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.