Quotes on Meditation Life

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.