“When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, In the depths of meditation, The Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self By means of the Self, An aspirant knows the Joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that Abiding joy beyond the senses, Revealed in the stilled mind, He never swerves from the eternal truth.”
"When a man dwells on the pleasure of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger. From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction."
- Bhagavad Gita
Awareness
"There are three gates leading to the hell of self-destruction for the soul—lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one should abandon all three."
- Bhagavad Gita
Awareness
"There are three gates to this self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Renounce these three."
- Bhagavad Gita
Awareness
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is"
- Bhagavad Gita
Belief
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
- Bhagavad Gita
Belief
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else."
- George Saunders
Meditation
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
- Alan Watts
Meditation
"The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth."
- Alan Wilson Watts
Meditation
"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'When He opens for you a way of getting to know Him, do not mind if the quantity of your actions lessen in its presence.'"
- Al Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah
Meditation
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."
Meditation