Quotes About Meditation

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.

the midst of intense activity finds himself in the

Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.

Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga should be constantly practised, in order to gain control of the mind, and bring it into subjection. The obstructions to Yoga arise from lack of control, and cause us pain. They can only be removed by denying the mind, and holding it in check, through the means of Kriya-yoga.

Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God.

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How

One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life." Such is the power of association.

Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.

Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water — so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!

It teaches that there is the soul, and inside this soul is all power. It is already there, and if we can master this body, all the power will be unfolded. All knowledge is in the soul. Why

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).

The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

even so the sage can draw all his sense-organs inside," (Ibid. 58.) and nothing can force them out.

If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.

Swami Vivekananda