Guru Nanak Quotes

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I aspire only to silence.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Meditation changes your character.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Solitude helps you reflect.