S. N. Goenka Quotes

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma – the way to liberation – which is universal.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you’re bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.