Work for God, love God alone, and be wise with God. When an ordinary man puts the necessary time and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.
If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
Movement for me is meditation.
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master’s use.
The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.