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Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

Now, you just watch your attention. Where is it going? Watch yourself. As soon as you'll start watching yourself, your attention, you'll become more identified with your Spirit.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it, a pure mirror. By dhyan, this purity of the mind is indicated. So first, no object should be in the mind. Mind must remain alone without thinking about anything - with no thought, just a consciousness, just an awareness, just an alertness. This alertness without any object is meditation.

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.

One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.