Alan Cohen Quotes

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

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

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

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

A quiet mind cureth all.

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.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"

Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.