Paulo Coelho Quotes

I aspire only to silence.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

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

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

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