Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

You’re actually in deep meditation all the time. It’s just covered up by all the noise and all the thoughts and all the emotional things that are running through you. It’s always there underneath.

Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not.

Meditation is the art of doing nothing. You cannot do meditation. By definition, if you’re doing something, you’re not in meditation. Meditation is a state you’re in when you’re not doing anything – physically, mentally, or consciously. You’re just making no effort. You’re literally being completely still, physically and mentally, inside and out.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance… but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

The enjoyment of life is only possible if the world could get connected to the spirit… you become the spirit as Christ has said in simple words that you have to be born again.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life’s journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.