The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of...

Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker, and my head was a balloon, incapable of thoughts. I didn’t...

A One-Liner used at the right time and at the right place will create a greater impact than any story ever told in the world.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

It is the mind’s job to protect and take care of you, to solve your problems and make sure you’re safe. So, if you feel a surge of emotional upset, it moves into action, trying...

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Three Lines That Hit the Key Points.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to...

If you’ve ever tried meditation and didn’t stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you...

Only with the closing of the eyes are we truly free.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence — silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time...

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

We exist to serve the Lord

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world” — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — “were hatching and proclaiming...

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still...

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I...

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

I am your hope, your guide – your soul.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy,...

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Meditation makes us happier!

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

Meditation is mind’s vacation!

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth-...

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by...

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing...

When I pursued an education in healing in the USA in 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crownchakrahealer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalyst for...

Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not...

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.