"You cannot meditate if you are ambitious - you may play with the idea of meditation. If your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty."
"Love and meditation are like two wings. A bird cannot fly with one wing - and for thousands of years man has tried to do just that. Either they have chosen love and ignored meditation, or they have chosen meditation and rejected love."
"If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listen to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment... which is complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a...
"Become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace. Become the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that you can say, 'I am no more. Only love exists.' Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating. Then the blood is not circulating, but love is...
"Meditation is the ending of sorrow, the ending of thought which breeds fear and sorrow the fear and sorrow in daily life."
"Meditation is the way of life, it is not an escape from life."
"When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning."
"When the mind goes beyond the thought of “the me,” the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible."
"To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature."
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."