Byron Katie Quotes

Your mind is nirvana.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

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

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.