Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth; the method is summed up in 'be still.'
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides Him from you.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
When you dive deeply into the Heart, thoughts subside like waves on a calm sea.
Give up the habit of looking outward; turn the spotlight inward.
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine meditation.
Make meditation a daily appointment with your highest Self.
The joy of meditation is beyond the description of words.
The mind must become utterly still for the supreme light to descend.
Listen to the secret sound, the sound that is all around. When you hear that sound, everything is clear.
The mind is a wild monkey dancing on the branches of desire; tie it with the rope of conscious breath.
The pearl diver plunges fearlessly into the depths of the ocean to find the jewel, while the coward sits weeping on the shore.
Let your meditation be free from ambition; true stillness is effortless being.
Hearing stops with the ears. Thinking stops with the mind. The spirit is an emptiness that waits upon all things.
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe.
Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. The problem may be anything, but the answer is one: meditation is the answer.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple: just watch.
When two lovers meet, time stops. When two meditators meet, eternity begins.
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