A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just for you to survive somehow. But this survival is not how you are supposed to be. Existence has not given you birth just to live in hopes. You can be really ecstatic this moment, and there is no other moment. Meditation is, Zen is living now and here.
Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.
All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
Life is not outside of you. You are life.
Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Happiness is found principally in meditation.
Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.
Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live.
To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.
Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.
When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.
Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory