Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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.

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.

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

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

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

My life includes much meditation and good energy, so my mind will stay busy.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.