Leonard Orr Quotes

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.