“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

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

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it.”

“The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it.”

“In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal – quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is.”

“By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.”

“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.”

“Meditation is not you going through thoughts – it’s letting thoughts go through you.”

“The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.”

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

“In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.”

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”

“The only difference between meditation and ordinary social interaction is that the friend you’re gradually coming to know is yourself.”

“One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”