Lauren Oliver Quotes

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't stay in that state. We're not here to be blissed out all the time.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Last night I had a peace dream.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.