Hermann Hesse Quotes

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought - there is no past, no future, there is only the present - in that state of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity. Humanity is in a state of deep sleep.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality, self -contained Consciousness, where there's perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being. That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad. It knows only itself as Perfection. And you are That.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.