Ian Gillan Quotes

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.