The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.
The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.
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.
Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.
Seriousness is a disease.
In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.
Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent.
Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.
Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable...
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.
As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.
Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.
If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.