Jack Kerouac Quotes

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

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

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

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

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

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

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Silence is the garment of light.

Your mind is nirvana.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.