The taste of Truth conquers all sweetness.
The Joy of Truth conquers all pleasures.
The loss of desires conquers all sorrows.
- The Dhammapada
When confusion reigns, it is easy to remember this truth: I am not my thoughts, nor my emotions, nor my sensory perceptions, nor my experiences. I am not the contents of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which everything happens. I am consciousness. I am the Present. I Am.
- Eckhart Tolle
Meditation is not an effort against the mind. It is a way of understanding the mind. It is a very loving way of witnessing the mind.
- Dharma
Sadness, anger, envy or fear have nothing bad in itself: a painful emotion indicates only that we left the center.
When you are at peace, the whole universe is at peace. What seemed like a cacophony becomes like a heavenly music : a symphony for an alone mind.
- Stephen Mitchell
Everything is dependent on everything else,
everything is connected, nothing is separate.
Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Mastery of the mind leads to wisdom.
Practice meditation.
Stop all vain talk. - Amritabindu Upanishad
Finding inner peace, this is a point of no return.
You can never go back into the struggle.
The struggle is over now because you will to do the right thing,
and you don't need to be pushed into it.
- Peace pilgrim
The difficulty of meditation is not the training, but the letting go of preconceived ideas.
The experience of the true self is a state of awareness that cannot be defined; words cannot express living reality.
- Dharma
You must meditate without wasting time, thinking that there is only this day and this hour. After that, it becomes truly easy.
You must forget about the good and the bad of your nature, the strength or weakness of your power.
- Dogen
Just as a flower which seems beautiful
and has colour but has no perfume,
so are the fruitless words of the man
who speaks them but does them not.
And just like a beautiful flower
which has colour and also has perfume
are the beautiful fruitful words of the man
who speaks and does what he says.
- The Dhammapada
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
- A. de Saint Exupery
Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect; it just means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
- Dharma
Following the way isn't all that difficult;
you just have to avoid continually pitting
one thing against the other, "this" against "that,"
and thereby fragmenting the world into opposites.
- Seng T'san
Quietude, gentleness, love of simplicity and non-contention are natural attributes of a sage but unfortunately most people do not see beyond a sage's outward appearance and do not notice the treasure which is the essence of his being.
- Tsai Chi
The word "meditation" and the word "medicine" come from the same root. Medicine means that which heals the physical, and meditation means that which heals the spiritual. Both are healing powers.
- Osho
When you meditate, there should be no effort to control and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating.
Let your body remain as it is, and your breath as you find it.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.
The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away
and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain
The criterion for how our meditation is developing in our life is that the meditative presence and quality is expanding both in our relationships and our creativity.
- Giten
To be natural means not to force things.
When you act natural, you get what you need.
Meditation helps you to know what is natural.
- Dharma
There are four phases in meditation:
- Experiencing the suffering in life
- Discovering the causes of suffering
- Using meditation to be rid of suffering
- Reaching the ultimate state of no self and no suffering.
The more you know yourself,
the more clarity there is.
Self-knowledge has no end,
you don't come to an achievement,
you don't come to a conclusion.
It is an endless river.
- J. Krishnamurti
"You are the 'I-Am'! Who is it who is saying that, I can't find the 'I-Am'? The 'I-Am' is saying that, with it's confusion with the mind." "Even the label of 'I-Am', you don't need it. You are the 'I-Am'! You are there. You are That which 'I-Am' points to." - Mooji
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