Quotes About Meditation

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

Flow is letting nothing obstruct the breath. Practice flow through a complete exhale in every way in your being.

I am haunted by waters.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.